I guess that everyone has to start somewhere. How can we just live our entire life without questioning why things are going good, or why things aren't? Some things may be considered merely chance happenings, but those who profit by "Gaming Facilities" would have you believe it's not by chance ...that you are actually lucky. Are others just unlucky? There are many things that happen not by chance ...they are deliberate. But we are not really qualified to speak on such events as natural disasters ...the Bible says that it rains on the just and unjust. So what do we say about such things as the Haitian earthquakes, and now I must add, the Japanese earthquakes? We don't need to say much at all ...our response to the Haitian earthquakes, in one of the poorest places on Earth, had a humanitarian relief of equal magnitude to the disaster. Now we have an equal chance to respond to the Japanese crisis. It can all be classified as "good". But we all would also be able to cite things that are not good. Atrocities, that could be considered outright evil, whose magnitude often cannot be measured, also take place. And the worst are deliberate acts. They don't begin at that disastrous level. Sadly, some of them begin with what some feel is good and right, worthy of our attention. There is a quaking spirit that resides in almost every area around us. They begin with small quakes, which build with intensity, until the sentinel event, awaiting unknown aftershocks. We all struggle with things we do ...which we shouldn't do. We either celebrate the joys usually associated with the wrongs, or we don't. If we don't, we either continue to struggle with it, or we experience victory over the struggle. Celebration is good, but in celebrating Him, not in the area which opposes Him. So the question is not really whether good and evil exist. The question is: "How do we respond to it!"
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