Why There Is A God

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Is there a God? I BELIEVE THERE IS When my father lost his business three years ago I thought my life was over. What were we going to do? Things had already become noticeably harder and tense around the house. We even talked about moving. I guess working fourteen-hour days for six days out of the week doesn't mean you'll be successful in world. Life has a funny way of presenting itself. When you're up and doing well, things never seem as good as they can be. And when your down you always wish you were up.

Things were progressively worsening, and I felt as though no one in my family deserved this. My father is a good man and my mother a good women, so how could this happen? Both of my parents are incredibly active in church and so is my sister. What more could God want? I could not see what my parents might have done to deserve this.

I started to question faith and God. He had to know we were good, decent people. He had to know that my father worked harder then any man I knew. At times there were whole days that went by were I did not see him. I could wake up for school, come home, eat dinner, do my homework, go to lacrosse, and go to bed before he came home. Where was God through all of this? If He could not be there for me, why could He not be there for my father at least? My belief in God was starting to fade. It started first with anger then a feeling of abandonment, finally followed by stress and frustration. I tried and thought repeatedly, how could God let evil exist? I continued my thinking process and...