that all of life, good and bad, the rainbow and the dust storm, are part of God’s creation. Augustine wrestled with the fact that so much of the world seemed somehow imperfect; how then could it come from a perfect God? Yet, at the climax of his Confessions, he acknowledges that all is from God, and that nothing God made can be bad: “We see that everything is good which in any degree has being, because it derives from him who has being in no degree at all, but is simply He Is.”1
