This week, your journal asks you to connect the readings to your own lived exper

This week, your journal asks you to connect the readings to your own lived experiences and observations. After reading Wiesel’s Night, Sung Park’s “The God Who Needs Our Salvation,” and Cone’s “God is the Color of Suffering,” ponder the experience of suffering, during the Shoah or some other significant example in recent times. Take time to consider your own experience(s) or witnessing of suffering and feel free to share some part of that story if you so choose. (Your story of suffering can be experienced or observed.) You may wish to think through the following questions to guide your reflections: If you identify as religious or spiritual: when suffering happens in life or in the world, where is God, an ultimate reality, or spiritual truth, in that suffering for you? Or if you don’t self-identify as religious or spiritual, what do you do with the reality of suffering in your life and the world; how do you make meaning of it? (Please note that you do not need to identify yourself as religious or non-religious to me in the journal, unless you wish to!) What responses to evil hold meaning for you? Did you find Wiesel, Sung Park, or Cone particularly meaningful? Why, or why not?

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