If God Exists, Why

By: HelloGod

Volume 1 No.10

Thursday July 10, 2008

I stopped in Virginia at a freeway exit to gas up my car and get a snack. When I got back into my car and headed up the entrance ramp onto the freeway, I felt something crawling up my leg. I was still on the entrance ramp so I grabbed what appeared to be a bug crawling up my leg and quickly pulled over onto the shoulder of the entrance ramp. Without giving a second thought to where I was, just get whatever is crawling up my leg off, I quickly removed my pants. Yep, in front of God and everyone, I was standing on the shoulder of an entrance ramp to the freeway in my underwear. The bug was the largest black beetle I’d ever seen. Maybe I should confess, he didn’t live through the night.

While driving home, I started to think about the country I just toured. The majestic mountains called the Rockies to the diverse oceans of the Pacific to the Atlantic: Cactus and deserts to swamps and valleys of green carpet. I remember saying to myself, “ I don’t know if there is really a God, but there must be a divine creator who created this beautiful country called America.

Events in my life caused me to think about a “Supreme Being” called God, by most. Like most people however, I had the same questions:

1. If there is a God, why do people suffer?
2. If there is a God, why is there famine and disasters?
3. Why are people born deformed or without and others are born with a silver spoon?
4. Why are there blind people?

If there is a God, why does he let all this happen? I would make everything just right if I were God, I thought.

There is a grocery list of whys when it comes to God. No one could adequately answer these questions for me. My mom didn’t know the answers and all the religious people I asked didn’t provide an adequate answer I could understand and accept. What other questions I had weren’t going to be answered then but God did answer. Have to go today but see you tomorrow.

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