Tuesday, June 28, 2011

When Bad Things Happen To Good People

I have read this book  -- parts of it I have read 2 or 3 times.  Here's an excerpt from the very end of Chapter 3:

  • Residual chaos, chance and mischance, things happening for no reason, will continue to be with us...we will simply have to learn to live with it, sustained and comforted by the knowledge that the earthquake and the accident, like the murder and the robbery, are not the will of God, but represent that aspect of reality which stands independent of His will, and which angers and saddens God even as it angers and saddens us.
  • The psalmist writes, "I lift mine eyes to the hills; from where does my help come?  My help comes from the Lord, maker of Heaven and earth." Psalm 121:1-2.  He does not say, "My pain comes from the Lord," or "My tragedy comes from the Lord."  He says, "My help comes from the Lord."

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