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It is ridiculous also to act as if it were not absolutely and essentially true all the same.

My faith tells me that God shared poverty, suffering, and death with human beings, which can only mean that such things are full of dignity and meaning, even though to believe this makes a great demand on one’s faith, and to act as if this were true in any way we understand is to be ridiculous. And I know it would be presumptuous to speak as if the suffering that people feel as they pass through the world were not grave enough to make your question much more powerful than any answer I could offer. Those that are all we know of Him, when there is so much we don’t know. I feel it would be presumptuous of me to describe the ways of God. Which it is in the nature of the father to give. As it is to want the attention and encouragement of the father. And there is no choice, either, because it is in the nature of the child to walk. A father holds out his hands to a child who is learning to walk, and he comforts the child with words and draws it toward him, but he lets the child feel the risk it is taking, and lets it choose its own courage and the certainty of love and comfort when he reaches his father over-I was going to say choose it over safety, but there is no safety.

I realize I have always believed there is a great Providence that, so to speak, waits ahead of us. “I have worried that you might think I did not take your question as seriously as I should have. Born place: southern california, The United States
