Listen "09 - An answer we wouldn’t understand"
Episode Synopsis
I found a picture we took when we had been living in our new home for a few hours. It happened in March 2012, when we were enjoying a nap together. Agustin was only two months old, and he had fallen asleep on my chest. I stared at the photo, trying to understand why sometimes tough things happen in people’s lives.
At first, there may be two answers: One is free will, since we have the ability to make decisions with total freedom; and those decisions always lead us to where we are in this very moment. During the day, we make thousands of decisions: when we wake up, we decide whether to put on our shoes to go to the bathroom or to go barefoot; whether to wash our teeth or our face first; and so forth all day long. Millions of decisions a month... And billions a year.
The other answer to my question is that God has His purposes. And I base that answer on my Faith. But... What are God’s purposes for people? Sometimes we see terrible situations in other people’s lives, and we wonder why...
At first, there may be two answers: One is free will, since we have the ability to make decisions with total freedom; and those decisions always lead us to where we are in this very moment. During the day, we make thousands of decisions: when we wake up, we decide whether to put on our shoes to go to the bathroom or to go barefoot; whether to wash our teeth or our face first; and so forth all day long. Millions of decisions a month... And billions a year.
The other answer to my question is that God has His purposes. And I base that answer on my Faith. But... What are God’s purposes for people? Sometimes we see terrible situations in other people’s lives, and we wonder why...
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