A Conversation about God cont'd
Sometimes I feel like I've seen too much, known too much, heard about too many messed up things. Is it any wonder those of my generation, and the ones younger than mine, are said to be jaded, cynical, disillusioned? We have constant access to sensationlist news, activist outrage, celebrity gossip, as well as talking heads who say a version of the same thing on the hour and streaming headlines fed across TV screens and email servers. Our propensity to relay tragedy seems never-ending. Combine this with what occurs in the course of our everyday lives. Combine this with extensive travel abroad, the bulk of it in developing countries. I feel too young to have seen what I have seen, to have read/known/heard what I have read/known/heard...if life expectancy were still 45 years, I could at least feel justified in being world-weary from time to time. But I am relatively young for my times. Then I think, "if my mind aches from even thinking about the difficult things I've seen in my own short little life, how could I possibly comprehend God's knowledge of the full extent of all the terrible things in the history of the world?" It would absolutely blow my mind and I'd probably wind up in an insane asylum...rather depressing thoughts but a perfect example of why God protects us from "the reason" for each and every evil/messed up thing that happens.
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