GODISNOWHERE

I am a wee bit behind with the tragedy posts, but I was so shaken up by Tuesday's class that I couldn't think of what I wanted to say until now.

I have been doing a lot of thinking about the Gospel as tragedy, and it made me think of a Bible study that my mom and I attended together. I was the only child (I think I was about 14-ish at the time), and the pastor made us read the phrase "GODISNOWHERE." After listening to all of the adults read it as "God is nowhere," I narrowed my eyes and thought really hard. Suddenly, it occurred to me. The phrase does say "God is nowhere." But it also says, "God is now here." And that's the beauty of it. God is nowhere and everywhere all at once.

In the film Fridge, which was about two drunks trying to help the little boy who got locked in a refrigerator, it's very easy for the drunks to believe that God is nowhere. Nobody will help them, Alice got attacked at one point, hours and hours go by, and they begin to lose hope. They think the boy will die, and they're mad about it.

But at the end of the film, they realize that the boy is still alive. God didn't want him to die yet. God kept him alive. Even in a hopeless situation where God seemingly abandons everyone, he is with everyone at the same time, and it's wonderful.

It also reminds me of the last few lines from the song "God Thinks" by Voltaire.
God thinks puppies need to die and
God thinks babies need to drown 'cause
God is neither good nor bad.
God is you and me.
God is everything.

The rest of the song does not really fit, so don't look it up. You'll probably be disappointed and offended, hahahaha...

 Voltaire ^

Speaking of Voltaire, he has a stop-motion short film called ODOKURO all about how humans can get stronger and adapt to their environment, but we'll all inevitably die, anyway, and how life will beat us up and cause us to be hateful, and... yes...

I love Voltaire, I think he's a genius, and I will probably talk about him and Kino's Journey every chance I get.

This was a little less tragic than some of the other tragedy posts. Should I... apologize for that or...? I don't know.