Back in my atheist days I would've howled at the gullibility of religious folks for believing that the Great Fairy God Father in the Sky sent a ghost to rescue someone after the accident rather than just prevent the accident in the first place.
I've grown up since then and have a much better (though still woefully imperfect) understanding of divine providence.
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I would love to hear you speak at length about your understanding of divine providence. Last evening, my family was discussing this incident and one of my daughters remarked, "what a coincidence!" My wife responded with, "It was a miracle!" I did my best to explain that my wife was looking at the story through the eyes of faith.
ReplyDeleteThat would make for a good post, uh? I've written on suffering before, even preached on it once or twice. BXVI has an excellent section on suffering in Spe salvi.
DeleteYour 8/11 post on faith was helpful. Thank you.
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