Difficulties with God

In Day's portion of reading, she was really struggling to find a happy medium with spiritual and materialistic happiness. on one hand, there was God, on the other, her husband, whome she supposedly loves very much. After all those years of neglecting a spiritual lifestyle, she had found herself, and this time, she wants to believe in Christ out of maturity. Before, it seems as if she was so lost that she needed God, she needed something to believe in to get through the day. Now, she has her baby and her husband.

This struggle is the same in Hechel's. Isaiah is still warning his people to not be so arrogant in their ways, and that God will come down and kill them, yet they don't listen. There is no fear, no regards, no competence to the powers of God. They are nig time sinners, and Isaiah wrestles with himself in defining how he feels. On one hand, these heathens deserve whats coming to them, but then again, they are lead astray by evil temptation. Oh what to do?

These are the struggles I see everyday. What to say or which side to be on. Should I preach about the word of God to those who are not acting accordingly, or do I hold my tongue and let them figure it out. Do I love the things on Earth more than God? Would I willingly give up my life right now if I could be with him? Hard questions man.

However, I don't think these questions are hard to answer for some people. For the past three weeks, I've been volunteering at St. Ignacious for "Room at the Inn" which houses 14 homeless people. They are the ones who have truly found God. Talking to them, it gives me insight on how to live, how to appreciate the wonders of our world that we so take for granted. Then talking to the sponsors who have done it for years, on how they feel about it. It is my project for this semester on social injustice. There's so much to learn from these people, but we never get a chance to talk to them.