Night's Doubt and Heaviness

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I finished the whole of Night in pretty much one sitting and goodness, has it put me in a gloomy mood. I appreciate it though. I'd rather be awakened to the realities of life than to live in blind ignorance and the cater of this materialistic culture. The glaring tension of evil and suffering always grips me when reading of the Holocaust. I would have it no other way- this is real life. I can't help but empathize with the doubt Elie experiences in believing the Goodness of the Judeo-God...
"Behind me, I heard the same man asking: "Where is God now?" And I heard a voice within me answer him: "Where is He? Here He is- He is hanging here on this gallows..." That night the soup taste of corpses."
Even in his doubt, I can't help but at least hope that I see a glimmer of him seeking the Goodness of a God that suffers alongside His chosen ones. I wonder, deep down, if there was any sort of glimmer that this was truth that Elie came to know. Though he claims disbelief his action of prayer taken later on points to such a possibility.
"And, in spite of myself, a prayer rose in my heart, to that God in whom I no longer believed. 'My God, Lord of the universe, give me strength never to do what Rabbi Eliahou's son has done.'"

All in all, my heart is heavy reflecting on these truths of the world's brokenness. Oh, Lord, remind me of your hope that you have graciously given me to cling to!

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