“That’s sort of how I am. In the hospital it was a real struggle. My mom and everybody would bring me rosaries and holy cards and little pieces of palm and I’d feel guilty because sometimes it just all seemed like a joke. If there really is a God don’t you think He’d just talk to us once in a while to let us know He is really there?” “You’d think. But God, as they say, works in mysterious ways.” Going down the stairs to my car, she said, “And then all of a sudden I’d have my faith back. I wouldn’t know why it left me and I wouldn’t know why it came back. It just would and I didn’t have any control over it. Sometimes I think I’m crazy. And I mean clinically.” “That’s why my favorite part of the Bible—andthe only part that really makes sense to me—is the Book of Job. He asks all the same questions we do. Hey, exactly what’s going on down here, anyway? You got little kids dying, you got people killing each other in wars, you’ve got tycoons letting all these people starve to death.
What do You think about Sam McCain - 05 - Everybody's Somebody's Fool?
