The things I can solve this Christmas
Across the street, three doors down.
Thought
Cassandra and I wandered a few doors down and across the street today to deliver some Christmas treats to a neighbor friend who lives with her disabled son. When we entered the house there were some old photographs on the couch and she explained how she’d been feeling a little sad thinking about the past and some of her decisions surrounding her marriage and divorce.
We then talked about life, death, and a lot of things in-between. Our children joined us at the house and our visit lasted the best part of an hour or more. We could have stayed longer but she needed to pick her son up from somewhere.
As I was walking home with our middle child on my shoulders, the thought came to me that I can’t solve many of the worlds problems; like the Syrian upheaval, or the polarization of American society, but I was able be there for an aging woman who was perhaps having a bit of a hard day. I truly believe our families visit today made a real difference. I know that God cares about the tragic loss of life in war zones and I so wish they could be resolved, but God equally cares about a woman in West Virginia too, and today our family was able to lift where we stand.
Quote.
Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order f nature and the existence of free wills involve, and you find you have excluded life itself.
- C.S. Lewis (The Problem of Pain, p.25)