The human journey is insightfully illustrated in another ancient story that has been orally passed down throughout the years. A traveler was wandering through a town, searching for hope, when he came across a crippled beggar, then an old woman getting beaten, and then the funeral of a baby. He fell into a spell of pain, distraught from the despair, famine, and destruction he witnessed. He ran out of the town into the vast silence of the desert at night and screamed to God, “Oh why God! Why is there so much pain? Why is there so much oppression, so much injustice? Why don’t You do something?”
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