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In Professor Corrigan's paper he talks about the darkness. Not just any darkness really but the question of "where is God in our darkness?" This is a question that people ask when they go through a rough time. Only in dark times though. Most of us don't take time to think about this question unless we are hurting. It doesn't cross our mind when life is dandy. Why would we need to think about such things? In fact unless we look for it we won't even realize that those times and thoughts exists. Suddenly pain and suffereing falls on us and we are taken back. When we have come to the point of hopelessness, death, illness or a loss of some sort we fall apart. We hurt and cry out to God for him. We cry to him and deserpately demand for his attention. We want answers while he waits. People tell us everything is going to be alright. How do they know that? Can they look into the future and see that in a few months we pull through just fine? Or is that just to make us feel better? Do they even believe that everything will be ok or is it just something people say in those times? Perhaps they went through this sort of thing and came out just fine therefore they are cheering for you through their experiences.

But what about the people who don't make it through ok? I mean several people go into deep depression, injure themselves, withdrawl from the world or even kill themselves. They didn't end up ok. So in the end some of those encouragements turned into lies. THey were not ok. How dark does it get before God turns from us? I mean really. God doesn't stand darkness, he's perfect so he can't mess with that stuff. So what happens when we hit rock buttom?