Is It Really a Wonderful World?

A news headline caught my eye this week that I thought would be good to use as a teaching point—and a good reminder for us.  George Weiss, who wrote the song "What a Wonderful Word," died at 89 years old.  The headline from Associated Press read, "'What a Wonderful World' songwriter Weiss dies."

What attracted my attention was the seeming contradiction: the title of the song (What a Wonderful World) and then the news that the songwriter died.  Death and beauty are in the same sentence—but...