{"id":3177,"date":"2013-04-16T10:18:58","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T14:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.districtdiva.com\/?p=3177"},"modified":"2013-04-16T10:18:58","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T14:18:58","slug":"where-is-god-when-tragedy-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/districtdiva\/where-is-god-when-tragedy-strikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Is God When Tragedy Strikes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my latest colum<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebony.com\/wellness-empowerment\/the-spiritual-life-where-is-god-when-tragedy-strikes#axzz2QdLbBk3R\">n<\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0Ebony.com, I reflect on the\u00a0bombings in\u00a0\u00a0Boston:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What was meant to be a day of celebration became a horror show at the finish line of the world-famous Boston Marathon on Monday when\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/04\/16\/boston-explosion-news_n_3088615.html\" target=\"_blank\">two bombs exploded<\/a>\u00a0just as thousands of people were finishing the race. The carnage left in the wake of the explosions turned the streets of Boston into a\u00a0warzone. \u00a0And through the constant media coverage, we&#8217;ve seen it all. \u00a0We&#8217;ve seen the blood and tears of the victims and survivors. We&#8217;ve watched the death toll climb from two to three people and the\u00a0injured list rise to more than 140 victims. We&#8217;ve seen the devastation in the streets. But where was God in all of this?<\/p>\n<p>Where was God when an 8-year-old boy died just watching a race? When runners had their legs blown off, when spectators limbs and clothing were burnt off &#8212; where was God? When the evil responsible for this attack\u00a0began to plot,\u00a0<em>where was God?!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To the atheist and the spiritual\u00a0believer alike, these can\u00a0seem like useless questions that yield unsatisfying answers. At the end of the wondering, plots have still been carried out, lives and limbs have still\u00a0been lost; there&#8217;s\u00a0no undoing these things or unseeing the terror.<\/p>\n<p>Questions and confusion, anger and regret are normal feelings to have in times likes these. When all that is good is clouded by all that is evil, God can be difficult to find.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest at Ebony:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebony.com\/wellness-empowerment\/the-spiritual-life-where-is-god-when-tragedy-strikes#axzz2QdLbBk3R\">http:\/\/www.ebony.com\/wellness-empowerment\/the-spiritual-life-where-is-god-when-tragedy-strikes#axzz2QdLbBk3R<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my latest column for Ebony.com, I reflect on the bombings in  Boston:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,27],"tags":[147,148,918,919],"class_list":["post-3177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-love-dare","category-the-usual-dithering","tag-boston-bombings","tag-boston-marathon","tag-terrorism","tag-terrorist-attack"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/districtdiva\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/04\/Boston-Marathon-bombing-screenshot.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7nB6F-Pf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/districtdiva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/districtdiva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/districtdiva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/districtdiva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/districtdiva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/districtdiva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/districtdiva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/districtdiva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/districtdiva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/districtdiva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}