Happy 7th Birthday, Elise!
July 7th, 2008 -- Posted in Grace, Listen, Love, Remember | 5 Comments »
I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despicable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidean mind of man, that in the world’s finale, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, of the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, of all the blood that they’ve shed; and it will make it not only possible to forgive but to justify what has happened.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Brothers Karamazov
I know so many people who are sad right now. And if you’re sad, please, please stop and take some time to listen to this podcast on suffering by Tim Keller. He is one of the few I’ve heard talk about suffering in a comedic, grace-filled way. You will be blessed.
Happy Birthday, my little lady. You are missed. Your brother Isaac wants to come see you. He is sure that your house smells like grapes.