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What holds the keys and tumblers to this world? Is it cruelty? Chaos? When the pain of life howls outside our door, is there anything there in the dark night to explain it?
Or is there some loving design within the chaos? Some grace stronger than the cruelty? Does life make sense, even when it doesn’t?
Close one eye. Close the other.
Is there any light within the darkness?
Two summers ago, Reuben Summerlin died. A 44-year-old husband and father of two and devoted U.N. employee living in Fiji, he had his whole life ahead of him. They were on vacation. He was biking when, out of nowhere, he was struck by a car overtaking a cane truck.