Here is an exert from a 1983 article in Sojourner Magazine written by Elsa Tamez. It speaks to my questions as to why God is silent so often in our lives.
GOD’S SILENCE is mysterious. Sometimes it fills us with fright and paralyzes us in the face of the legion of devils that squeezes out the life of the people. But without this silence of God, we can’t become men and women. When God speaks all the time, people become deaf. They don’t hear the cry of the poor and of those who suffer. They become full; they no longer walk and hope. They don’t dare to do anything. They no longer endure.
God remains silent so that men and women may speak, protest, and struggle. God remains silent so that people may really become people. When God is silent and men and women cry, God cries in solidarity with them but doesn’t intervene. God waits for the shouts of protest….
So to this author God is silent so that we can do what we were put on this earth to do. That is to be our brother’s keeper. We cannot and should not expect God to do this for us. It is our task; if God did it then what is our purpose? These words are definitely worth contemplating.
And the journey goes on….
RJ's Corner - Having My Say 
Why not try to be perfect? That is everyone’s purpose.
Your article is not worth contemplating. It just show that you did not understand what your saying and what the will of God is.
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First of all the words were from another author not me. That being said I even have tolerance for your views and if you don’t see any merit in the words I quoted here that is your right. It seems that you are convinced that you know the will of God and if anyone disagrees with you they are wrong. I personally am not that arrogant. God bless you and I hope someday he really will reveal to you and to me his true will.
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But that is THAT DAY, you just happened to not perceived it. You are preoccupied with your anger, and have not read between the line. For how many that you know , will gave you that kind of an answer?
And another thing, I consider that article to be yours also, cause you believed in it. That is why you posted it .
Remember:
# Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser : TEACH a just man, and he will increase in learning. (proverbs 9:9)
# For what is your life ? It is even a vapor, that appeared for a little time, and then vanished away. (James 4:14)
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