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A conversation with a child at church made me nervous and sweaty. I realized that children’s questions were the most profound and the hardest to answer.

Last Sunday, a member’s son asked me if I was watching “May Bukas Pa,” a local TV series aired on ABS- CBN. He asked me if the premise of the show is true- that “Bro,” the endearing term used by the seven year old protagonist to refer to Jesus, really exists and talks to kind young boys. I said yes, and explained that he won’t only talk to Santino, the miracle working child in the series, but to all other children if they will just pray.  Then he quipped, “it was not Jesus who talks to Santino, it was Big Brother!”

I just stood there dumbfounded with my mouth open.

The child’s doubt about Jesus made me realize the adult version of his question: Is there a God?

The world wonders if indeed a supreme being, the uncaused cause of everything there is exists. If he does, how may he be found and where?

It was a basic question that was hard to answer. (continue reading…)

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