I told him he was correct and said that now I realized why this discovery must be especially difficult for the two of them. “Do you really?” he asked. I told him what I surmised: that the only thing that had made his son’s death bearable was the knowledge that it was part of a greater plan. But if humanity is not in fact the focus of your attention, Lord, then there is no such plan, and his son’s death was meaningless.
