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...Yeah. Absolutely. In this sort of crisis we all want God to be sovereign, all powerful - to be able to intervene decisively, to rule over every atom and molecule of the universe. My point was that lots of believers are more dependent on a Calvinist-style sovereign God than they realize when they make their theological claims...
...God of liberal theology - He's a linguistic symbol, or a vague kind of spirituality. I've heard liberal theologians who have said that in situations like mine God is basically active in helping you find our own inner resources. It was very apparent to me in the ICU that I had no inner resources. My trust was in the unlimited sovereignty of the God of the Bible. I shudder to think of going through that experience believing that there is no one in control...
...human enough to hope they would grieve my loss, but praise God's mercy in allowing me to live as long as I had and to know that God's plan for me - and them - includes what we wouldn't have chosen, but that we know to be perfect and best...
...saying that that idea was meaningful, or that this was an example - that God placed that verse in your mind when you would not have been able...
...tell her. But she knew. And only once did she ever show that she was scared." Simon's way of handling the strain was to throw himself into writing about the randomness and futility of life in The Good Doctor (1973), an attempt at dramatizing Chekhov-like stories, and God's Favorite (1974), a deliberately vulgar retelling of the Book of Job. Both were among the few misfires in his career, artistically and commercially. After Joan's death he went into therapy for two years. He resisted the process at first because, like Tennessee Williams, he feared his neuroses were...