What am I supposed to think about the bad stuff?
No matter what you believe about God (or whether you believe in God at all) you’ve probably wondered about the bad stuff in life. Why does it happen? Can we stop it? And if you know anything about Christian Science, you’ve probably asked yourself some version of this question: If God really is All, and all good—which is one of the key points in Christian Science—then why do awful things still happen? What gives?
“It doesn’t make sense,” said a teen in my Christian Science Sunday School class. And I get that. I’m not here to tell you that the tough things you see in your life, among your friends, or on the news are easily dismissed. What I am here to share is that I’ve never found answers by staring at the bad stuff and trying to understand it. The answers, even to my most difficult questions, have come only as I’ve been willing to let God show me what’s really going on from His all-powerful, totally good point of view.
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