Out of the Silence: After the Crash

by Eduardo Strauch Urioste

didn’t seek God as an entity separate from myself. God was there, in my own self, in that limitless mind that contained everything.

Marcelo still said: “God saved us from the crash. Why would He let us die here?” Even though the majority of the group shared that faith-based feeling of protection, I was among those who doubted that divine will guaranteed salvation for those of us who survived. Why some and not others? What was that strange distribution of life and death based on, that distribution that seemed completely random? But Marcelo insisted that we couldn’t understand the enigmatic ways of God with minds that are only human.

You can’t know when fear is truly justified, but in any case, it is always lost energy, useless strain. Yet even so it seems unavoidable in any situation of risk and uncertainty.