“It’s a strange thing, to explain death to a child. The question they inevitably ask is why, and in truth, there’s no good answer. We settle for telling them about the God who loves them. The good place we go afterward, where there’s no hurt. No death. We raise our children to believe in that lie; that all will be wonderful once they die. But my Patience wasn’t content with that. And she looked at me with eyes full of tears, and she demanded to know if God loved us so much, why did he put us in a place like this at all? Why didn’t he start us in the good place, where there was no death to
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