Grains of Sand
This weekend was marked by attending a memorial service for a 10 year old girl we knew from our time at Anchor Center. Such an event inevitably brings me into processing many philosophical ideas about life, our purposes, and the role of God in tragedies. Beginning with our response to the pandemic and further developed after the school shooting in Uvalde, I’ve had these half realized thoughts rolling through my head about the role of God’s grace in death, particularly the death of children. Tragedy so often brings the question of “How could a good God let this happen” to the forefront of conversations and my late night ponderings. But amidst those questions has been this lurking knowledge that our human perspective on death is so backwards from God’s eternal perspective. When you stop for just a second and try to get some distance from life as you know it, you get a glimpse at how painfully foolish it is that we spend so much of our lives fighting against d...