No one can say the world is a good place to be anymore. The ones wearing rose-colored glasses can say it, but they would be wrong. Too much ignorance setting fire to intelligence. Too much hatred claiming to love. Too many indulgent people that love only themselves and their immediate families.

Just imagine if Jerusalem would have had Facebook and Twitter or if it had people like Bezos, Musk and Trump greedily consuming everyone’s share of the planet.

Where is God? George Carlin said he does not exist. What do you think? Is he not just a thought rattling around in our selfish brains when we suddenly feel a lack?

Carlin makes me laugh at his version of the truth, but I don’t think he is completely right.

I look at my own fears and turn to God for answers, but there are none. Is it because I don’t ask him for anything during the good times? But there really are no good times as long as millions of people in the world are suffering.

And we put our own faces on him, don’t we? He must understand the language we speak, first off. Then he must be able to read our minds as well.

So there is room and reason for doubting him.

God is okay with doubt and fear and confusion and agony. He lets it continue despite our prayers.

What is a human being to do?

Well, folks, humankind is a sorry lot and no amount of prayers will change that. Putin is on the warpath and we see the savagery on our smart TV’s. America democracy is on the way out as autocracy rises in the world.

There is only one real thing that we can do and that is to try and wake up from the nightmare that is human life. Oh, it is almost impossible; I know that, but try we must.

Perhaps when the human surrenders, God appears. Maybe he doesn’t exist as we think he does. Perhaps God is love in any form and that is enough and plenty, at least to start with….

Vicki Woodyard