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Why didn't He stop it?
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Isn't God
supposed to be good?
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Isn't He supposed
to love us?
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Does God
want us to suffer?
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What if the answer
to that question is yes?
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See, I'm not sure that God
particularly wants us to be happy.
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I think He wants us to be able
to love and be loved.
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He wants us to grow up.
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I suggest to you
that it is because God loves us...
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that He makes us
the gift of suffering.
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To put it another way,
pain is God's megaphone...
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to rouse a deaf world.
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You see, we are like
blocks of stone...
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out of which the sculptor
carves the forms of men.
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The blows of His chisel,
which hurt us so much...
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are what make us perfect.
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Thank you very much.
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A woman has had a dream
about me.
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She writes to ask
if I've had a dream about her.
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I had a strange dream
last night.
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Another letter
from Mrs. Gresham.
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- I can't remember any of it.
- Jewish Communist Christian American.
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You may ask me how I know
it was strange if I've forgotten it.
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- Can't answer that one.
- I like her letters.
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She can be quite sharp
sometimes.
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Listen to this, Warnie.
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She says, "I can't decide
whether you'd rather be...
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the child caught in the spell,
or the magician casting it."
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See, her letters are rather unusual.
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She writes as if
she knows me somehow.
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Still, I suppose there is something
of me in my books, isn't there?
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I expect
it's just the American style.