For my writing composition class in college I am supposed to write blogs about our theme, which is "Forgiveness and Justice". This theme, particularly forgiveness, is very active in my life right now. I was diagnosed with crohn's disease at age eleven. I am now twenty. What does this have to do with forgiveness, one might ask? As a young man who has always believe in some kind of greater power, God, aliens, hell, even flying unicorns with magic rainbows, I believe it is all possible, even the less believable stuff. There are things in this world that humans cannot and maybe will not ever be able to explain. That being said, I believe that there is a greater power of some kind. But I digress.
If that greater power does indeed exist, why would he/she/it curse someone, anyone, with an illness, affliction, or malady? It is totally beyond me. Is it a test of the afflicted person's endurance, courage, or strength? Is it a combination of all three? Hell if I know. All I know is that it is getting hard to forgive that "greater power", should it happen to exist, for giving me crohn's. It is a part of me and I live with it daily, and I do love myself, but there are times when it just becomes almost unbearable. It's like trying to magically turn a grizzly bear into a bear. Unbearable. Get it? It's already a bear? ...No? Eh.
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