Question

How do your experiences influence you? Describe a book, song, movie, or other media that has affected your life or way of thinking.

Answer 1

There is a book called A Way to Remember, by Nicholas Sparks, that has greatly influenced my thoughts about spirituality and the way God acts in people's lives.

The book tells the story of a very religious girl who has cancer and dreams of seeing a miracle. As I read the book, there was growing hope that the girl would be cured of her illness. The girl often went to church, prayed, read the holy bible, and did all that is taught to us that it is the will of God, but her healing never came, on the contrary, the sickness was worse, and it made me anxious, wondering why what reason God was not doing the miracle. She needed a miracle and she deserved one!

Towards the end of the book the girl dies and this made me very sad and wondering why the miracle did not come? Why do bad things happen to good people? because that's what happens in real life, right?

In the midst of my thoughts, I remembered that through this girl, many people had their selfish thoughts transformed, families were united and many other good things that can be considered miraculous happened and it was all through that girl.

So I began to realize that I began to read the book with questioning "why does God allow bad things with good people?", But when I finished the book I realized that sometimes God has a different plan from ours and this is our miracle .