some comments in this thread awaken me to a point in time when my wife and I went on a Marriage encounter weekend to explore our relationship with each other and with God. a product of that weekend was a long poem I wrote and was published for the Marriage Encounter community. I titled it The Great Fish taken from a writing by Guy de Mussapant (sp) His thesis was that this great fish had spawned the universe in prolific stupidity. In that poem I struggled with the why's and how's and where's of God, God's plan, etc. But most troubling for me was the one issue in which most of mankind would agree and that is the suffering of children. All creatures of this earth have the innate extinct to protect their young because it is in its very essence protecting and preserving the species. This is something that eludes me to no end. And in that any man that harms a child is the very representation of evil at its worse
I filed my poem away from my kids to read in later years. It was a gut wrenching experience for me but I ended the poem with a call for hope springing eternal
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