Is the world ending in 2012?
Personally, I find it incredibly hard to believe that the world will end in a year. I have too much to achieve in this lifetime. What I have actually found so incredible and so beautiful is, that in the wake of recent disasters, the most recent being the Japanese tsunami, people still have faith. Twitter, Facebook and BBM have all been blowing up with prayers for the Japanese, and I guess it provides small comfort to know that people still believe in the power of prayer.
On a related note, in one of my uni modules, we've been doing a lot of work on the Rwandan Genocide. The harrowing and upsetting books, films and documentaries we've encountered are only made harder to view or read by the fact that such a disgusting act of evil happened in our lifetime and yet we knew little about it then, nor can we do anything about it now by educating ourselves now.
Today we were looking at a movie called Shooting Dogs, and I was actually shocked by the majority of the other students' inability to comprehend the religious aspect of the film. They were easier able to understand how the Rwandan murderers stood so firm in their beliefs that mass murder was necessary, but they could not believe that a priest in the midst of all this death could keep his faith.
I know I've struggled with my faith, especially recently. I've turned away from God when it gets too painful, but I'm beginning to understand the importance of faith. In light of tragedy, when we are completely unable to do anything but watch, when the feelings of overwhelming helplessness consume us, it is a comfort, great or small, to know that God has our backs.
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