This present darkness

There's a lot of suffering in the world we live in. Take the last month's news: a dead child lying on a beach, people desperate for a better future away from a war torn Syria, more than seven hundred people getting crushed to death while performing a religious ritual in Mecca, children dying of sickness and disease...it goes on and on. Closer to home, I have my own sufferings,  Accidents, death of loved ones, long term illnesses, plane crashes, lost jobs, lost spouses, failed exams, betrayal by people I love, loneliness, each year comes with its own set of sorrows. God doesn't seem to solve all of my problems. I have a growing list of unanswered prayers. Yet this belief in God, gives me hope. I believe that even in the midst of the chaos of everyday life, there is a God, who is in control, who I can trust. Like trusting the pilot of an airplane. I can't navigate the skies by looking out the small window by my seat, and even if no digital screen told me where I was, I trust the pilot to take me where I want to go. I'll sit back and let him do what only he is capable of doing. I don't know why life happens the way it does, but God has promised a destination. I need to trust him to take me there. It's often too easy to forget that.