Where is God When Bad Things Happen?

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She is no longer faced with that. Issue is her mind still remains clouded with so many questions on why they happened and where God was when they started happening and why no rescues from HIM.
 
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How old is this child now? Is she still in that home? Has your state’s form of Child Protective Services been involved? If she is a minor child, why haven’t the police been called? You said this was last April? And you are a teacher of some sort? You are obligated to report all instances of child abuse to the proper authorities immediately, whether it is “biting off more than you can chew” or not. These men may be abusing others if they are not reported. This is obviously a child who needs more help than you can provide yourself. Is she in counseling?

You seem to be vague and, as another poster pointed out, philosophical in your posts. If you provided answers to these basic questions first to assure us that these steps were taken care of, I’m sure more posters would continue to help you with the answers you are looking for. It’s a different scenario if this is a young child still in the home as opposed to a teenager or young adult years removed from the situation.
 
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How old is this child now? Is she still in that home? Has your state’s form of Child Protective Services been involved? If she is a minor child, why haven’t the police been called? You said this was last April? And you are a teacher of some sort? You are obligated to report all instances of child abuse to the proper authorities immediately, whether it is “biting off more than you can chew” or not. These men may be abusing others if they are not reported. This is obviously a child who needs more help than you can provide yourself. Is she in counseling?

You seem to be vague and, as another poster pointed out, philosophical in your posts. If you provided answers to these basic questions first to assure us that these steps were taken care of, I’m sure more posters would continue to help you with the answers you are looking for. It’s a different scenario if this is a young child still in the home as opposed to a teenager or young adult years removed from the situation.
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I dont know about the OPs state law, but if they know something like this is going on, and do nothing, they possibly could be held as an accessory after the fact. Id have to research this though. 😦
 
I got the Police and … I just would have rested my case and sort advices on how to better the growing girl’s life. Now, the discoveries have gone beyond my everything. I too am stuck and confused.

The entire house is just ruined in sexual and immoral life style. Mother has smaller boys always on her as she teaches them how to be experts in sexual activities. Kind of runs an underground school where she takes on the young boys and determines when they are mature enough to start dating and having sex with other girls… just so weird— why will she use herself? Father and Sons are dare devils that no pretty lady or woman dares to talk raw with or makes a signal of having an urge without they devouring whoever it might be.

Case so complicated and all in the house arrested. Issues coming up from here and there. Names are being called randomly to have done this or that and the rest of them. Better still, little Amanda has gone to stay with an Aunty who is a Rev. Sister at her place of pastoral work where I am praying she picks interest and even becomes a Rev. Sister too in the making.

These new discoveries have so weakened me that I already don’t want to continue all these. So disgusting to the ear to hear what a whole family can turn to be. I pray God saves them because of the one (1) steadfast soul he has found in them.
 
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I got the Police and … I just would have rested my case and sort advices on how to better the growing girl’s life. Now, the discoveries have gone beyond my everything. I too am stuck and confused.

The entire house is just ruined in sexual and immoral life style. Mother has smaller boys always on her as she teaches them how to be experts in sexual activities. Kind of runs an underground school where she takes on the young boys and determines when they are mature enough to start dating and having sex with other girls… just so weird— why will she use herself? Father and Sons are dare devils that no pretty lady or woman dares to talk raw with or makes a signal of having an urge without they devouring whoever it might be.

Case so complicated and all in the house arrested. Issues coming up from here and there. Names are being called randomly to have done this or that and the rest of them. Better still, little Amanda has gone to stay with an Aunty who is a Rev. Sister at her place of pastoral work where I am praying she picks interest and even becomes a Rev. Sister too in the making.

These new discoveries have so weakened me that I already don’t want to continue all these. So disgusting to the ear to hear what a whole family can turn to be. I pray God saves them because of the one (1) steadfast soul he has found in them.
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You have done the right thing. I honestly have no answers why these things happen. And I am not going to give you a Churchy cliche answer my friend. I will however Keep you and All the principles who were victimized, in my prayers. :signofcross:
 
Thanks for the prayers as I really anticipate them.

Our world is turning to a wild wilderness… God save your people who hope in you.
 
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I’ve really pondered this in my mind for many years and I think right now I need more people to help me think more into the quest and give me replies.

In the cause of my teaching some young children some life morals, I was hit with this question around April last year “where is God when bad things happen to us?” I pretended as if I didn’t understand what the question was all about and the kid continued.

At the age of about 7, her elder brother would always forcefully penetrate her and threatened to beat her up if she reported. This scenario continued until at about her 11th birthday when she could no longer bear the pains and assaults. She reported to her Father who instead of taking up the issue and dealing squarely with it, asked her to show him how he did it. Being honest in heart, she went on to show him and her Father ended up penetrating her too. Now, who was she to run to? He (her Father) went on to convince her it wasn’t a bad thing after all, it was within the family and not a hidden or external affair. She painfully had to believe in such teaching until last year during her catechism for her preparation for first holy communion. She now learnt much about the sixth commandment and how much she had sinned.

Now, imagine what trauma she was passing through telling this story. I felt her pains but the most painful thing was that “she said she was always holding on to and kissing the crucifix on the rosary she wore on her wrist, hoping HE helps her bear the pains of those penetrations.” Can you imagine what the Jesus she kissed on the crucifix was doing at that moment?

Was he asleep or not watching? Was he busy with other issues and not ready? Remember, HE while on earth said, “Leave the little children to come unto me for theirs is the kingdom of God.” What was he actually doing at that point in time? Where was HE, the great I AM at those moments? I think I have really tried a lot in convincing this poor girl who after her receiving the Holy Communion still feels the most guilty of all little children. I need more helps to solve this puzzle.
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Dear Omnipotens,

I think we have all struggled with your exact same question. My personal feeling has been that it is NOT about God sitting idle while bad things happen but rather about each and everyone of us who is uncaring and just minds their own business - Where is our love for each other? Where are our prayers for a better world for triumph of good over evil?

Our loving God has given us free will and that in itself permits both good and evil to impact our lives. If we prayed more for each other, I’m sure the world would be a much better place.

Having said that, the best thing to do after finding out of such horrendous evil is to first notify the authorities to protect the innocent and then to pray and pray for this innocent girl so that the evil done to her may turn to goodness, a positive outcome, i.e., putting in jail the evil-doers and then pray for the little girl to receive graces from God so that she may become a future advocate for this serious cause and serve as an example in not only bringing awareness to this horrific evil but to also ask communities to pray for this not to happen to others all throughout the world.

If we all took this approach for every evil act we heard of or witnessed I’m certain the world would be a better place to live. Conversely, if no one cares and no one prays for the little girl, then the evil done to her may continue on and destroy the little girl, because we allowed it by not praying for her. It’s never too late to pray for all or brothers and sisters in Christ.

Interestingly enough, after praying to God for enlightment I found this amazing testimony from a doctor who was struck by a lightning and was destined to hell; but given a second chance by the loving prayer of a complete stranger. Here is her testimony testimony-polo.blogspot.com/ and her website gloriapolo.in/

I just learned about this testimony and I have been deeply impacted by it as it does address the very question asked here and reaffirms my own personal beliefs that it is all about our love for each other throughout the world where God is able to manifest himself and help prevent bad things from happening - so as freewill derived from sin can bring evil, so too can we use our freewill for prayers to help fight and oppose that very same evil that is produced by our sinful lives.

God Bless everyone in this forum and around the world.
 
The reason God lets things like this happen is probably the same reason the pantheon of other gods let such things happen. There could be no surer, evidence, for me of God’s absence. That story is heartbreaking, absolutely heartbreaking.
 
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