Sunday, June 21, 2009



trusting that you will make all things right, if I surrender to your will...

While I am not sure of the first clause, I endeavor to fulfill the second clause.

Does God make all things right? If so, right is beyond my knowing.

I can indulge in various thought experiments to make it so. Such as, God used the Nazi holocaust to undermine the foundations prejudice across the world. After Hitler racial, religious, and other forms of bigotry became indefensible and are gradually being eliminated.

Even if this were true. Does it make right the Holocaust? Not to me.

I seek to surrender to God's will so that I might not contribute to evil. I seek to surrender to God's will so that I might join with God to prevent evil. In surrendering I tend the wounds of evil. I don't expect - God forgive me - for God to make all things right.

A collection of articles on Mark Rothko - including the painting above - is available from The Guardian.

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