says ‘Not so much as the weight of an ant in earth or heaven escapes from the Lord.’ That is touching that Allah, God, and their ilk care when one ant dismembers another, or notes when a sparrow falls but I strain to see the use of it” (Dillard, 195). Annie Dillard skepticism is threw a wrench in the gears of my thoughts. While I wish to believe that God is on a constant look out for all of his creatures, so many things have happened that can in no way be for the benefit for humanity. Catastrophes such as the Holocaust and the sinking of the Titanic show no good. “’God Speaks succinctly,’ said the rabbis” (Dillard, 194) either God really knows what he is doing or he isn’t there. Yet, I feel as though I have to believe in the second. While Dillard does make excellent points in her disbelief, there is too much belief in our world, it’s people, and in myself to just give up. A.N. Whitehead brought up an interesting concept in my quest for God. He believed God to be “the great companion, the fellow sufferer, who understands” (Armstrong, 73). What if God isn’t mean to always be the solution? What if he is in our lives for support, someone to talk to, someone that is there to believe in you, someone that you know believes in you. With the billions of people in the world and the constant disasters, no matter how large or small, that occur God has his hands full. It is almost kind of silly to believe that he can do it all. No matter how holy and amazing he is, he once walked on the same soil as us, breathed the same air as us, and lived a life like ours.While the truth is the truth, belief and speculation often are the more commonly accepted. Humans are on a constant quest for paradise, Utopia. When they hear that God will lead them there, many find it as a relief to life, to “know” that one day they will walk among this being that will bring ete...
