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The movie ‘The Tree of Life’ makes clear despite all the beauty in this world, that the way of nature is indeed about striving, about survival of the fittest. Nature is red in tooth and claw however beautiful it is. And Elijah did not learn the way of grace or God’s will by watching nature. He had to listen to the still small voice. It is what I must do in my sadness. It is what I have chosen to do. And so I have chosen to grieve like those who have hope and follow the way of grace. I have chosen not to grieve like those who have no hope and rail against the unfairness of it all, against a God who seems to be cold and distant.
— Ben Witherington Good Grief— The Way of Grace « The Bible and Culture
