Where Is God?
I have to ask ...32 total reviews
Comment from Showboat
I love animals, really do. For the most part I figure they're more worthy of love than humans.
Still, the horrid truth is that we have equally as many child babies that are thrown out or aborted or otherwise deprived a chance at life and as much as I love the animals, I feel even sorrier for the children of today.
Best,
Gayle
reply by the author on 18-May-2012
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I love animals, really do. For the most part I figure they're more worthy of love than humans.
Still, the horrid truth is that we have equally as many child babies that are thrown out or aborted or otherwise deprived a chance at life and as much as I love the animals, I feel even sorrier for the children of today.
Best,
Gayle
Comment Written 17-May-2012
reply by the author on 18-May-2012
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Hi Gayle...I know...This little cat to me, also represents the living skeletons that we allow to suffer all across the world in our 'shame'. I posted a photo of one such baby...I just can't sleep many times trying to understand... We/the U.S./ have so many resources. "We" can spend BILLIONS on ad campaigns. "Super Pacs", etc...billions on secret weapons/national security...I think when all is said and done and if there is a God, He will not reward those who monger war, waste the money that could be used wisely, etc...not when there are such things as this in the world...Thank you for this note and more, for understanding this Gayle. HUGS...Susan
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Hey Susan, you're so right. You talk about a convoluted way of thinking about things? I look at the 'gimmie pigs' that pass for young adults today and I wonder what their future will hold. Very scary for sure. And very sad for the little animals.
Hugs,
Gayle
Comment from Dave M
Susan,
This is a bleak but excellent short essay. I appreciated it and found nothing to criticize. jlsavell recently posted an essay on this subject.
Dave
reply by the author on 18-May-2012
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Susan,
This is a bleak but excellent short essay. I appreciated it and found nothing to criticize. jlsavell recently posted an essay on this subject.
Dave
Comment Written 17-May-2012
reply by the author on 18-May-2012
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Hi Dave...Thank you so much. I will search for Jl's post too asap. I feel strongly about these things...people too. We/this country in particular...just waste billions of dollars on things that I won't list here, but you know how it goes. It's just so wrong...anyway, thank you again Dave...Susan
Comment from Sasha
This one made me cry. How can anyone look at this photograph and not feel the depth of emotion it causes. I too want I want to reach into this picture and bundle this small cat in a warm towel. I want to hold it and tell it I will save it.
reply by the author on 18-May-2012
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This one made me cry. How can anyone look at this photograph and not feel the depth of emotion it causes. I too want I want to reach into this picture and bundle this small cat in a warm towel. I want to hold it and tell it I will save it.
Comment Written 17-May-2012
reply by the author on 18-May-2012
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Hi Sasha...How are you feeling?? I sure hope better tonight. You are one I worry so about too. What a huge heart you have and kind thoughts for all of us. This photo is just astounding...I cried like a baby when I first saw it...hence the post. I want to be God's 'deputy' ??? for just a while. Is that wrong to have that feeling? THey call it a 'God complex'??? I can't help it. I get so upset...anyway, Thank you so much for reading and feeling for this little guy...xoxo. Susan
Comment from Eliane Rabello
This is really uncomfortably true and sad. The picture speaks for itself, but you translated both his suffering and reality with such clarity that it hurts. I'm not a pet person, but I certainly would pick him up, cuddle and probably fall in love. Yet he also reminds me so much of all of us, other kinds of pets, hungry, craving, lonely. Excellent work!
reply by the author on 18-May-2012
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This is really uncomfortably true and sad. The picture speaks for itself, but you translated both his suffering and reality with such clarity that it hurts. I'm not a pet person, but I certainly would pick him up, cuddle and probably fall in love. Yet he also reminds me so much of all of us, other kinds of pets, hungry, craving, lonely. Excellent work!
Comment Written 17-May-2012
reply by the author on 18-May-2012
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Hi Elaine! Thank you so much ... I've succeeded then, especially if you aren't much on pets, yet feel for this little waif? I very much appreciate that! He sort of represents everything that's wrong in the world...and I shed hot tears at this photo. So, hugs and much appreciation too for this very kind review...xoxo. Susan
Comment from Carrie Smith
Yes Susan, I too have to wondered where is God when there is so much pain and injustice in our world. But, I'll have to purpose that God did not promise sun without rain. An emotional write that bared your soul and asked hard questions.
Superb, my friend...Susan
reply by the author on 18-May-2012
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Yes Susan, I too have to wondered where is God when there is so much pain and injustice in our world. But, I'll have to purpose that God did not promise sun without rain. An emotional write that bared your soul and asked hard questions.
Superb, my friend...Susan
Comment Written 17-May-2012
reply by the author on 18-May-2012
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Hi Susan!! There you are!! HAVE YOU POSTED???? I'm going to come and hold your finger down on the 'send' key. lol! I'm so glad you appreciated this...I just started bawling when I found this photo. I just don't get life sometimes. Well, you know. But you are right I guess...it takes the dark to make us appreciate the light. BUT. There's always that 'but', or 'what if'??? It's all too much for me at times...Thank you so much for reading and this kind review too Susan...now..>POST! :o) LOVE and hugs...Susan
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Welcome, Suse. I'm planning to post today, but keep kicking me in the butt!!! I have been working with Nancy on a essay for her publication. LOL...
Comment from ennahanid
...and it is such as this and all suffering that my doubt lies and why I also want to know Where Is God?. This is so touching a picture and I really and truly do not believe in crying on any day that ends with a 'Y'...I'm dead set against it - truly...but this made me cry...Dinah
reply by the author on 18-May-2012
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...and it is such as this and all suffering that my doubt lies and why I also want to know Where Is God?. This is so touching a picture and I really and truly do not believe in crying on any day that ends with a 'Y'...I'm dead set against it - truly...but this made me cry...Dinah
Comment Written 17-May-2012
reply by the author on 18-May-2012
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Dinah...Hugs. I'm sorry, yet glad...I wish I could get the powers of the world to wake up and realize what they do is off kilter. All the money they waste....these Super Pacs, and all that political waste...I get so upset. Oh. Anyway...I'm very grateful that you understood this and felt real emotions. luv...Susan
Comment from Anisa-
Ooh, I bet this'll stir a lot of emotions! Great write, Realist. Isn't it horrible? My mom used to tell me when I was a kid that if I pulled a leaf off a plant or flower or whatever that it would scream! Lol! And I believed her. "Can't you hear it screaming?" She would say. To this day, I catch spiders and bees to release them back outside rather than squish them.
I have a whack load of animals. Two dogs, a cat, frog, lizard and a bunch of fish. All of which, minus the cat, were animals that people didn't want anymore. Sad, eh? They're all wonderful animals and I love them all :) A long with my million, gazillion plants and flowers in the house and on the deck! Lol. They're not screaming anymore.
Good job with this sad write. We can only hope that this will reach a few people out there and make them think twice before throwing their pets away.
Anisa
reply by the author on 18-May-2012
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Ooh, I bet this'll stir a lot of emotions! Great write, Realist. Isn't it horrible? My mom used to tell me when I was a kid that if I pulled a leaf off a plant or flower or whatever that it would scream! Lol! And I believed her. "Can't you hear it screaming?" She would say. To this day, I catch spiders and bees to release them back outside rather than squish them.
I have a whack load of animals. Two dogs, a cat, frog, lizard and a bunch of fish. All of which, minus the cat, were animals that people didn't want anymore. Sad, eh? They're all wonderful animals and I love them all :) A long with my million, gazillion plants and flowers in the house and on the deck! Lol. They're not screaming anymore.
Good job with this sad write. We can only hope that this will reach a few people out there and make them think twice before throwing their pets away.
Anisa
Comment Written 17-May-2012
reply by the author on 18-May-2012
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Hi Anisa! I know...and people abandon their kids too. In more ways than one. I'm so impressed that you actually don't just kill the bees and SPIDERS...I'm so scared of spiders...but I always go slow with the mower and stop for the honey bees. They are almost extinct now, and lately have had attacks of guilt for using the flyswat on them (spiders). SEE?? I'm a hypocrite sometimes. Life is such a huge conundrum. And you even think of the plants!! I've heard that a tree feels every branch it loses. I won't sleep at all now. Guilt, and more guilt. xoxo. Susan
Comment from Darla9
Sometimes when I read your short stories I feel like you are reading my mind! LOL I feel like that so often, where is the God that supposed to love us all, why there is so many lives (and I don't only mean human lives) lost every day. Brilliantly written and so true. Well done :)
reply by the author on 18-May-2012
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Sometimes when I read your short stories I feel like you are reading my mind! LOL I feel like that so often, where is the God that supposed to love us all, why there is so many lives (and I don't only mean human lives) lost every day. Brilliantly written and so true. Well done :)
Comment Written 17-May-2012
reply by the author on 18-May-2012
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Hi Darla! Thank you! How nice that I can connect with you like this. Our world is suffering and the ones who can really help, mostly just look away and go on as if it's/they are not there. I could rant and ramble for hours...instead I will say a heartfelt thank you and try to hang in there. I get so down, endlessly worrying. Thanks for being here Darla...xoxo. Susan
Comment from MumEsGirl
That six if for making bawl. I hope it hit others just as hard.
God is here, in you, me and anybody else who cares enough to be moved to helping those in need. In the last two months we have rescued twenty dogs in this town. The work the association does is amazing.
If only we could do more for those people who are also desperate.
hugs
kate
reply by the author on 18-May-2012
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That six if for making bawl. I hope it hit others just as hard.
God is here, in you, me and anybody else who cares enough to be moved to helping those in need. In the last two months we have rescued twenty dogs in this town. The work the association does is amazing.
If only we could do more for those people who are also desperate.
hugs
kate
Comment Written 17-May-2012
reply by the author on 18-May-2012
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Hi Kate! I am SO proud of you for being someone who DOES something. Wow!!! That takes a big heart and is what more of us should be doing too. Twenty dogs? Keep at it, and let me know the associations address? so I can try to send a donation? I get so down thinking of the suffering everywhere. And angry too. Well. Thanks again Kate...KUDOS to you! hug! Susan
Comment from KathyH
I must admit this seems pretty dark, even as it touches on the truth. It reminds me of Twain's 'Curious Stranger' when the devil points out that God lets the smallest sparrow fall.
That being said (since your title asks:)). As I see it, God us in each of us who are invested with his love and chartered to reflect him/her. Personally I don't think we are living up to the job. Kathy
reply by the author on 18-May-2012
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I must admit this seems pretty dark, even as it touches on the truth. It reminds me of Twain's 'Curious Stranger' when the devil points out that God lets the smallest sparrow fall.
That being said (since your title asks:)). As I see it, God us in each of us who are invested with his love and chartered to reflect him/her. Personally I don't think we are living up to the job. Kathy
Comment Written 17-May-2012
reply by the author on 18-May-2012
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Oh good thoughts, Kathy. SO many have described such different views on this. And it's interesting, tho makes me more confused. I hold to the belief that all anyone can do is try to be kind and hope that in the end, that kindness will somehow be rewarded. ? But you're right...we fail each time we allow the weak and helpless to suffer...Thank you again Kathy...most thoughtful review! Hugs! Susan
