Tragedy
How do we make sense of the senseless? Recommended Reading on Grief and Loss A Grace Disguised by Jerry Sittser A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis
Transcript
Well, hello everyone. This is Dave Scherrerrer. I'm your host of Kingdom Offerings. That's the podcast environment of 100 Fold Ministries.
And today I'm wondering, kind of out loud, how we're to make sense of the senseless. When things happen in the world that are not sensible at all, they are non-sense and things that are different than what we expected, different in a bad way. I'm thinking about the capacity for human evil that is in my mind a non-sense. In just these past 10 days, the horrors of the Hamas terrorists advancing on innocent children and mothers, families, grandparents in Israel, that has once again attacked our sensibilities.
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