So, I went to the doctor. This is an unbelievable doctor—very caring, phenomenal, renowned doctor. I had heard that the doctor doesn’t believe in God. And I was weighing whether to say something, and in the end I just did.
And the doctor explained to me that their family was very devout, went to synagogue every day, and was murdered in the concentration camps anyway. “Where was God?”
And it’s very hard because you don’t want to sound like a jerk, like a judgmental jerk. But I felt compelled to say, “But you went on to become a world-renowned doctor. So God is working through you. There was some sort of a plan.” And the doctor sort of scoffed or didn’t want to go there—I’m not sure what—but to me it was very plain.
And when people dismiss God, I always find that very hard to believe, because God’s hand is in everything, if only you look.
So with that as the backdrop, I will tell you what happened early this morning.
I had gotten into a conversation on X that turned unpleasant when the other person—who’s not just a troll, the person is a professional of some kind—turned misogynistic, cruel, anti-Semitic. But I said my piece and I left it there.
All of a sudden at midnight, my watch—it’s just a cheap watch, but it’s been working fine, it tells time exactly—at midnight, the 8 a.m. alarm goes off. So I’m in a deep sleep and it’s shrieking. And I thought to myself, oh, it must just be a cheap watch, and that’s why it’s malfunctioning. I just turned it off and went back to sleep.
Well, at 1:45 a.m., the entire building has the loudest fire alarm—no fire, just a screaming alarm. And it woke me up to such a point that I ended up going on to X and seeing further nastiness and responding in full to the nastiness.
I really feel that God wanted me to get back online and respond. (This was about the USS Liberty.)
We are all chosen, regardless of our religion. We all have a task, and God is very, very real.
Writing by Dr. Dannielle Blumenthal 