Is it cynical, photographs of suffering people to publish? A few days ago a group of journalists discussed the question of whether people are entitled to show the suffering of others in mass media. That was my inspiration for me to see the images more precisely: A desperate weeping man holding his dead brother in her arms. A severely injured woman sits crying help from the rubble of a (her?) House. Throughout the photo shoot it was deeply shocking pictures of dead and desperate people in the Caucasus to see. As was the journalistic question suddenly irrelevant and the other pushed his way up - probably for the thousandth time:
Is it not cynical by God to let people suffer? Why God So lets much misery? Ossetia, China, Mindanao, Darfur - the list of places where it is catastrophically bad people is far too long. Does God exist at all? If so, what is it for God? An arbitrary tyrant? God himself is cynical? To the horror of the suffering of others are personal experiences of life. There were some moments in my life where I thought my faith to lose. Because if there were God and he loved us, he could not let that happen.
On the threshold of doubt and disbelief I feel very clear: My faith makes me live. What would be left without God - especially in the face of suffering? A hoffnunsloses prison Despair and cynicism! Yes, cynicism is to disbelief, not to God. Because of this unfathomable God who permits suffering, has suffered in Jesus - to the abandonment by God. God is so close to those who are suffering, that God himself was one of them. When I look at Jesus on the cross, I can hope that with God all people loving hands through suffering and misery and death in these fields in the hands. Then I need to not turn away from horrific images, but can I let touch me. Maybe I can see God in people in the photos. Far too often I can help. I guess I can always pray.
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