From Sand and Ash

by Amy Harmon

But sadly, that is not how pain works, is it? We can cause pain, but we can so seldom cure it.”

God, make me worthy. Make me better. Help me to be a valiant servant. Help me to be more than I am, he had silently prayed, wanting only to be better, to be worthy.

The longer he remained on this earth, the more sure he was that mankind had no clue about God or heaven. Not when they used him as an excuse to kill, to punish, to discriminate. He loved God.