"what is unseen..."

“What is unseen.”

Picture from my friend from Iraq OIF 2008 Where he boarded many helicopter missions.

“ Everything difficult indicates something more than our theory of life yet embraces”

-George MacDonald

Reading this 📖 by Timothy Keller,

Walking with God through Pain and Suffering.

Is helping in times like this tragic helicopter crash, in California, and evil we can'’t comprehend.💔

"I want it to come untrue!

Life is unpredictable.

He talks about the final judgment and renewal of the world and says “And why could it not be that our future glory will actually so “swallow” the evil of the past that in some unimaginable way even the memory of the evil won’t darken our hearts but only make us happier?

CS Lewis writes -when on earth, people say “no future bliss can make up” for particular instance of suffering, “not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory.” 

JRR Tolkien - “Envisions a time in which “everything sad is going to come untrue.”

 “The evil we see today was not part of God’s original design. It was not God’s intent for human life.

That means that ultimately, even a peaceful death at the age of ninety years old is not the way things were meant to be. Those of us who sense the “wrongness“ of death – in any form – are correct. 

The “rage at the dying of the light"  is our intuition that we were not meant for mortality,

 for the loss of love, or for the triumph of darkness. In order to help people face death and grief we often tell people that death is a perfectly natural part of life. 

But that asks them to repress a very right and profound human intuition – that we were not meant to simply go to dust, 

and that love was meant to last."

-Timothy Keller

“So we do not set our sights on the things we can see with our eyes. All of that is fleeting; it will eventually fade away. Instead, we focus on the things we cannot see, which live on and on.”

2 Corinthians 4:18 (VOICE)