The Stranger in the Lifeboat

by Mitch Albom

“If you were really God,” I seethed, “you would have stopped him.” He looked to the sea and shook his head.

“God starts things,” he said. “Man stops them.”

A hovering Heaven is always waiting for us, visible from beneath the Earth’s blue waters. Such a wondrous world.

“We all need to hold on to something, Benji,” she said. “Hold on to me.”