helicopter view

Last year while teaching religion to 37 tenth graders

one of my students returned to class after having lost her Dad

in a car accident. She questioned myself and her peers

why the God I talked so good about could take her Dad.

She shared that her Dad never really was like a father to her

more like a friend because he suffered from drug addiction

so he never really grew up. My student questioned why God 

would have denied her a father in the first place then take

away the man who was her friend.

This got all the 15 year olds asking, "Yeah, Ms. Lillly?

why if God is so good would all these things happen that 

we don't understand?"

Finally, I explained what I believe to be true.

I told them that we know about coastal erosion and that 

we are loosing our wetlands, we believe that is true yet

most of us don't think about it or really understand what that

means. Yet if we get in a helicopter and see it from the

air all of a sudden it makes sense to us, we can see

the erosion. I told my class, God has the helicopter view

on the world. Things happen in the world and to us

it doesn't make sense, we can't understand how God could

allow these things to happen, but to  him up there, with

the helicopter view, it all makes sense.

I explained that things may happen to us in our 

little world and it could not even be about us.

It may happen to us because someone else

needs to see how we handle the situation which 

may change their life.

They understood this and some of my class explained

that it was the first explanation they could grasp and

understand.

So why do I share this story today?

Let this be the day you make amends and find peace.

Remember things may not make sense to you,

but to God with the helicopter view, he is waiting for 

your reaction to make the difference that could 

change the future.

LOVE TO ALL WHO I CALL FAMILY