Im sure this has been asked 100 times, but why does God let it happen?
I don’t come from a religious background at all. Most of my family are fairly nonchalant about religion apart from my mother who despises it and gets joy from making sure everyone knows it.
Although I have no sense of belief myself I often come on this board to read threads purely because I find it comforting to read people’s posts where their belief is so profound and they genuinely do believe there is a bigger power ‘out there.’ It must be amazing to have that belief, I imagine your lives are peaceful in the knowledge that better things are coming.
Anyhow, I just need it explaining to me why bad things are allowed to good people whereas some bad people float through life with nothing bad happening to them.
I class myself as a good person but I have a chronic condition that affects my life in so many negative ways and it’s knock on effects mean my husband and children are negatively affected too. I will have this condition for life and I find myself asking myself, “Why me? What did I do to deserve this?”
My auntie, who is so, so kind hearted has just left her husband and admitted he’s been physically abusing her for years. Why was she married to such a monster? Why was it allowed to happen?
A few years ago my friend’s infant, who was 14 months old, was killed in a car accident due to the reckless driver in the other vehicle. Her baby died and he walked away completely unharmed. He didn’t even go to prison? How is this fair?
I’m a paediatric nurse and I see death and severe illness in many children and I just think, “Why them? How can this be what God had planned for them?” So much unfair suffering for completely innocent children whilst their families watch them die.
I just can’t understand why God, if there is one, allows the lives of good people to be afflicted by such awfulness.