Something So Precious

It's been slightly over a year since I taught through "Reason for God" by Tim Keller.

I had the privilege (a true privilege) of teaching through the chapter on Suffering. It not only corrected some misplaced notions I had on suffering, but it also gave me tremendous hope, comfort and joy as I reflected on the difficult periods of my life.

Here's one of my favorite quotes...quoting Dostoevsky in Brothers Karamazov:

“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.”