In the World's Finale

Something for reflection on the anniversary of 9/11...

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, for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, of all the blood that they've shed; that it will make it not only possible to forgive but to justify all that has happened. - Fyodor Dostoevsky (cited in The Reason for God, Timothy Keller)

Winterproof

"Dear happy young people, prepare for deep loss and long sadness by feeding a kind of joy that thrives in winter." - John Piper