Bill Chadwick tells the story about the lost of his teenage son in a car accident:
My most incredible rage was for the people who made the idiotic comments like...."God wanted him more", or "it’s not for us to know", or "everything happens for a reason", or "it was God’s will". People told me I would never know the answer......BUT....they were wrong. I DO know the answer. The answer is that there IS a God and I am not him! You see, my higher power doesn’t operate like a puppeteer....pulling all the strings. Some things that happen are God’s will, some are man’s will and some things happen for no damn good reason at all. I believe that Michael’s death falls in the second and third categories. God didn’t have his hands on the steering wheel or his foot on the
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