(Please note: There is graphic language which may be offensive to some.)
These days can be a crazy time to
live in. There are all sorts of issues that arise on a second by second basis.
One begins to ask the very real theological question, “Where is God in all of
this?” Moreover, “Does God even care?” Tupac was no different, he asks the
question in context and from a marginalized perspective: I wonder if the Lord
ever heard of me?
If you have ever had some tough
times to live through, then these are questions that are real. They get at the very
depth of theological understanding that I look for and where I want to find
God. But, they are troublesome in nature; they question existence; they
question reality; they question dogma; they question tradition & culture; they
even question God—a blaspheme worthy of the
auto de fé in the Spanish
Inquisition. Yet, in all of this, they are necessary questions for the growth
and development of faith. Tupac places these issues at our feet and begs of us
to begin the very difficult journey of faith development within the crap of
life—the murky middle of faith.
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