Two Deaths, Two Possibilities
Two super sentences from Matt Anderson at Mere Orthodoxy, reflecting on a tale of two deaths:
For my entire adult life, I have only been able to make my way to two possibilities: The universe must either be a heartless place with a flagrant disregard for its inhabitants, so that the cruelty of the suffering which falls upon us is exacerbated and deepened by the absence of it in our neighbors. Or the goodness which stands beneath all things must be so overwhelming, so terrible, so transcendent and awful that it somehow—I confess to not understanding how—makes worthwhile the piles of wrecked human lives which fill our history.