{"id":821,"date":"2008-07-07T00:00:16","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T04:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drslewis.org\/camille\/?p=821"},"modified":"2008-07-07T00:00:16","modified_gmt":"2008-07-07T04:00:16","slug":"happy-7th-birthday-elise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drslewis.org\/camille\/2008\/07\/07\/happy-7th-birthday-elise\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 7th Birthday, Elise!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/img.photobucket.com\/albums\/v318\/cklewis\/Crape_Myrtle_Dynamite_Color_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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\u2019s 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\u2019ve shed; and it will make it not only possible to forgive but to justify what has happened.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Fyodor Dostoevsky, <em>Brothers Karamazov<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I know so many people who are sad right now. And if you&#8217;re sad, please, please stop and take some time to listen to this <a title=\"Suffering\" href=\"http:\/\/download.redeemer.com\/sermons\/Suffering_If_God_is_good.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">podcast on suffering by Tim Keller<\/a>. He is one of the few I&#8217;ve heard talk about suffering in a <a title=\"The Drama of Grace\" href=\"https:\/\/www.drslewis.org\/camille\/2007\/10\/21\/the-drama-of-grace-a-pentadic-analysis\/\" target=\"_blank\">comedic, grace-filled way<\/a>. You will be blessed.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Birthday, my little lady. <a title=\"Elise's Birth Story\" href=\"https:\/\/www.drslewis.org\/camille\/2001\/07\/09\/elises-birth-story\/\" target=\"_blank\">You are missed<\/a>. Your brother wants to come see you. He is sure that your house smells like grapes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12,14,17],"tags":[122,233,237,712,718,749],"class_list":["post-821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grace","category-listen","category-family","category-remember","tag-burkean-comedy","tag-dostoevsky","tag-drama-of-grace","tag-stillbirth","tag-suffering","tag-tim-keller"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Happy 7th Birthday, Elise! - A Time To Laugh<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.drslewis.org\/camille\/2008\/07\/07\/happy-7th-birthday-elise\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Camille Lewis\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.drslewis.org\\\/camille\\\/2008\\\/07\\\/07\\\/happy-7th-birthday-elise\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.drslewis.org\\\/camille\\\/2008\\\/07\\\/07\\\/happy-7th-birthday-elise\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Camille Lewis\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.drslewis.org\\\/camille\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/e93a8c9ec8fb8b926471114158437f82\"},\"headline\":\"Happy 7th Birthday, Elise!\",\"datePublished\":\"2008-07-07T04:00:16+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.drslewis.org\\\/camille\\\/2008\\\/07\\\/07\\\/happy-7th-birthday-elise\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":192,\"commentCount\":5,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.drslewis.org\\\/camille\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/e93a8c9ec8fb8b926471114158437f82\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.drslewis.org\\\/camille\\\/2008\\\/07\\\/07\\\/happy-7th-birthday-elise\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/img.photobucket.com\\\/albums\\\/v318\\\/cklewis\\\/Crape_Myrtle_Dynamite_Color_2.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Burkean Comedy\",\"Dostoevsky\",\"Drama of Grace\",\"Stillbirth\",\"Suffering\",\"Tim Keller\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Grace\",\"Listen\",\"Love\",\"Remember\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.drslewis.org\\\/camille\\\/2008\\\/07\\\/07\\\/happy-7th-birthday-elise\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.drslewis.org\\\/camille\\\/2008\\\/07\\\/07\\\/happy-7th-birthday-elise\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.drslewis.org\\\/camille\\\/2008\\\/07\\\/07\\\/happy-7th-birthday-elise\\\/\",\"name\":\"Happy 7th Birthday, Elise! 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