Asking God Hard Questions
Posted by tom | Oct 18, 2007My father’s suicide catapulted me into a time of deep grief, a time when I questioned all I thought I knew about God, while clinging to Him daily for the strength to get through the pain.In those first shock-filled days after I heard the news that my father had hung himself in the basement of our home, my heart would scream: "NO, NO, don’t think about it! It hurts too much!"
After the funeral, when I left to return to university, I felt so alone and overwhelmed. Whenever I had time to think, I would think of Dad, and I would cry. Questions and doubts started to fill my mind . . . -- Asking God Hard Questions, by Anne-Marie Montgomery.
Thank-you to Miller for passing along this piece. Each of us face times which we ask
If God loved me, why had He allowed this disaster?
If God was all-powerful, why hadn’t He stopped ___ from occurring?
If God was all-knowing, why didn’t He ____ ?
If God was there, why hadn’t He done something?
Was God there?
Asking God Hard Questions describes a helpful process in which a college student addressed her father's suicide by embracing and being embraced by God to step forward One More Day.
Updated: 10/25/07
You should hit the indent button or something when quoting. A number of times I have been caught off guard by something that "you" have written. This time, I was pretty sure that I would have heard if it actually was your father, but then I thought maybe your "current" father was a step-father, and I never had heard about a childhood father or something.
Glad to hear he is doing well.
Posted by Jon Daley, Oct 25 2007, 00:30