Whys?

Whys?

 

By John W. Vander Velden

 

There comes a moment in everyone’s life when we ask the big question.  Why?  Fueled by feeling that overwhelm, we find ourselves wondering.  Sometimes it is disappointments or pain but most often the question comes when we deal with loss…particularly when we feel that loss senseless.  The question comes and we feel we have betrayed some more powerful truth by the asking.  But friends there is no harm in the asking.  I feel that GOD, who knows us best of all, expects the questions…may even appreciate that we feel so, “torn to pieces” to be driven to approach even Him at those moments.  To some the asking why is a sign of distance, to me the ability to ask is a sign of near-ness.  Could you ask your mom or dad any question if they were not reachable?  I feel asking questions is an act of faith.  Maybe that’s why I do it all the time.  It is a different kind of prayer…something from the heart…something real…our soul being emptied, so to speak.

Now answers, that’s a different story all together.  Not that answers are withheld, but rather we may not see them when they lay at our doorstep.  Or we may not understand.  Not because we are ignorant, but because we don’t see the whole of it, or understand the whole of it.  There are things just beyond me…maybe you as well.  But we want answers.  More, we want answers in concepts we understand in ways that make sense to us.  But our grasp of the cosmos is…well, it’s limited…some might say childlike when compared to the whole of it, and to GOD, Master of the Universe.

So GOD understands the questions.  He understands the frustration.  He understands the rants, the screaming in the darkness.  GOD’s OK with that.  Just keep talking. He will keep listening to all your questions…especially when you ask…why…