So this is how it
feels to not know God and to live as if lifeless.
It has been a week
since we lost our mother to cancer, a week since I started to question God—His
existence, His mercy, His power—to question all of Him.
All. Of. Him.
Imagine the pain
of losing your dear mother just a year after the death of your beloved grandma,
and three years after losing your precious sister. Such is unimaginable,
actually. But it happens. It happened.
It happened to our
family—a family whose love for each other is infinite, boundless. Despite the
many twists and turns of life, we remained intact and optimistic. And after all
these years of heartache, we kept our faith. We held on to Him—only Him.
So we could only
ask God now, “why? WHY US?”
During our mom’s
battle with cancer, we fought the battle with her. We prayed incessantly. We
relied on His words. We found strength and comfort in knowing that God listens
to our prayers and that He heals. We believed that nothing is impossible to
God.
But all our hopes
seemed to have turned into false hopes and our prayers seemed to have fallen on
deaf ears. It felt like we were, again, blindsided by God. He took Mama from us
too soon. And losing her was too painful, to the point that I’d feel numb, almost
anesthetized of emotions. I couldn’t make sense of things, of life. It was too
much.
Amidst all the
agony and chaos, where was God? Where was God when we needed Him most?
Asking Him these
questions was easy. Praying to Him was hard. After all these years of being a
devout Christian, suddenly, I felt that I didn’t know who God really was. All
these years, I kept my faith, but it felt like He was the one who let go of me.
Suddenly, I felt that we were not worthy of His love. And nothing was more
painful than that.
But questioning
Him wouldn’t give us the answers we want. It wouldn’t make us understand why
these things had to happen to us. More so, questioning God wouldn’t bring back
our mother. So where do we go from here? I don’t know. I have yet to understand
God’s plans for us, His purpose for this pain, for this loss.
So do I still
believe in Him? I do.
Why? You may ask.
Because when I tried to rationalize His existence, when I tried to discount His
presence in my life, all the more I became lifeless.
(But just so you
know, God, this got us. Time out po muna. Ang sakit na po kasi masyado).
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