GOD IS FOUND
There are times when everyone asks the question “Where is God?” This is the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of The Great Famine in Ireland. During those years the Roman Catholic peasants had to deal with the question, “Where is God?” Perhaps this quote from B. J. Hoff’s Song of the Silent Harp might point us in the direction of answers. Teenage Daniel on a famine ship going from Ireland to America stands by a wounded man who befriended them and who is in terrible pain from an infected gunshot wound. Daniel wonders where God is in all the famine and the present misery and pain. “Where is God in the midst of all this madness, this misery? When evil is so powerful a presence… where is God?” A fresh surge of emotion coursed through him as he realized anew the debt of gratitude they owed this man who had involved himself in their misery and now lay…
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