God has the power to take every bad thing that happens to you and make it contribute ultimately to your good.

Then QED, ladies and... good.

Then QED, ladies and gentlemen, ultimately, it is good that they have happened to us.

Remember when I was a little boy, and I would go out and I would get hurt

and I would experience pain, either emotional pain,

somebody would tease me or make fun of me

or exclude me from a game and hurt my feelings,

or if I fall down and hit my head on a rock

and my head would be bleeding,

and I would run home crying, crocodile tears pouring down my cheeks and how my mother

would meet me in the kitchen and should have her apron on and she would hug me and I would

be sobbing and you know how little kids after they're done crying they can't

breathe they're gasping and I would be gasping like that and the tears would still be there and

she would take the corner of her apron and she would stoop over and she would wipe away my tears.

That's one of the tenderest things that any human being can do for another person, huh?

To wipe away their tears? And it was comforting. It brought me a consolation. And any time pain

happened and she wasn't there, I'm like any other kid in history, my first cry was I want my mommy because my mommy

was the one who could kiss it and make it go away make it all better. But when my mom

dried away my tears, they would come back. The Bible says that in

heaven God is going to wipe away our tears and when God wipes away our tears it's the end of tears.

We will never weep again from grief or sorrow or sadness.

And so on the one hand, we know that we are living in a world

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