Rev Bill

The past few days have been filled with a lot of emotions for me — as I am sure they have been for most people. There is the joy of Christmas — the joyous celebration of God coming into our world in Jesus Christ — and bringing God’s will for peace, justice, and love into reality But there is also the reality of the disaster in the countries around the Indian Ocean. At last count over 100,000 dead — and more will be found, I am sure.
Many people wonder at such times why God allowed it to happen.
Many others question where God is in the midst of such a tragedy.
One of my professors in Seminary once made the statement the the threat of nuclear destruction gave people what he considered to be one of the few legitimate reasons for refusing to beleive in God. Natural disasters seem to give them another.
How could a loving, caring, all powerful God akkow these things to happen?
Where is God in the midst of such tradedy?
Well — this is what I believe.
I believe that God does not put out His had to stop tragedy — for what reasons I do not know and never will know. But I beleive that God is with us in the midst of tragedies — and calls upon those who believe in Him to “be with” those who are hurting. Through prayers, money, and other actions we show God’s love to those in need.
Ellie Weisel is a Jewish Hollocaust survivor who as a child spent several years in a concentration camp. In his book Night he writes about a young boy being hung by the Nazis. As the prisoners were made to march by the dead body, one asked Wiesel:

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