The Tragedy of Being a Christian

As kids, we were told that God will always be there for us, and he will never hurt us. We were told that if we pray about something, God will listen and answer our prayers. When we are little we don't see all the violence and pain in the world. As we got older, those once invisible things become clear and right in our face. Once I got older, I started feeling like God never answered my prayers, and that he couldn't save us all. It didn't help that I was always around people who were pessimistic and didn't believe in God all that much. That's the tragedy of being a christian in this world today, we are surrounded by negativity. But also being christians, we must stay positive and keep believing in God.

In the short film "Small Hands" we saw pretty much the circle of life. They all had each other and lived in peace and happiness. But then negativity (death) comes and takes one of each animal, leaving the other to be in pain and suffering. Sometimes I ask myself "why do these things have to happen to me?" I think those animals felt that same way when they felt that pain. The film shows the pain that each animal felt (the rabbit shivering and crying almost made me cry btw). And then every one of them dies and goes away. And yeah, I guess that is what happens when you don't have God to look to. That's how some people in real life see our existence on earth. Even though we might ask ourselves "why doesn't God listen to me?" or "bad things only happen to me" we have to remember that he is always there for us and he always will be.