The God of imagination and possibility.  The God of power and compassion; God hears, God cares and God acts.  The question of course, is how and when will God act?  This is especially the case when we are in a situation that we can’t manage – we might be suffering physically or mentally or we might feel trapped, unable to be free from that which binds us or hurts us.  Sometimes we find ourselves in these situations or places because of our own doing – we have made a mistake, done the wrong thing, made a poor decision, been stubborn or maybe we chose to take a risk that didn’t work out well.  Such is the way with human beings – we are fallible and sometimes, we are foolish.

In our world today, the places and situations where despair and powerlessness exist continue. People still live in fear, hunger, pain and experience abhorrent and unjust situations. We can look closer to home and remember the bushfires that ravaged large parts of our country. We have just come out of 8 months of lockdown restrictions that have crippled our economy, our community and brought insecurity and struggle to many. Other countries are still being ravaged by the virus. Where is God in suffering? God is in the hope, in the knowing that all human experience contains meaning, even when that meaning is beyond our own understanding.