Monday, April 4, 2016
not a tame lion
While reading Ellie Wiesel's prayer for the days of advent, this particular sentence stood out to me: "Auschwitz must and will forever remain a question mark only: it can be conceived neither with God nor without God." Wiesel admits that he has absolutely no conception of how God and Auschwitz can exist within the same plane of being. But having said this, he still seeks reconciliation with God. In class the other day we talked about how we can't fully understand God. That fully understanding Him would completely undermine who He is. It seems that sometimes the best thing we can do is allow certain things to remain question marks, and reconcile our relationship with God rather than mandate that we have to understand Him. Sometimes we have to rely on the knowledge that He's not a tame lion, but He is good.
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Thanks for the post. It truly is eye-opening to try and wrap the mind around something so complex. I think you answered it well, though (as did Wiesel). Sometimes, we just CAN'T understand. Do we let that keep us from moving on? No, we have to allow question marks and pursue that which we know to be true.
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