Monsignor Pope Ping!
He seemed to want to talk...to dump something that was pressing him.
He told me two years ago he had a stroke. That was soon resolved with lotsa work to make a comeback. Looking for cause...the doctors did their due diligence and found two tumors...one in the brain and one in his lung. Stage one and two and they are shrinking.
I thought a bit and looked up into the sky and said...Is that really what you wanted to do with the stroke....find those tumors? Trust.....
I think that many people will believe that events will play out the same way, whether there is a God or not. Saying that God wills it, doesn’t really change things. So you are in a position to say, “God willed it” or there is no God that does the willing. The events don’t change only the interpretation changes. And this makes everything seem arbitrary, makes the position that the course of events naturally play out the way they do stronger (not that there is a God behind it, directing it). Many people are in this position because of prevalence of science that predict bad things happening due to nature: we grow old, get ill and die. That’s just the way nature is. To make the claim God is behind it raises all kinds of vexing and reassuring questions questions. Raises the question of the miraculous or things that defy nature. But many people don’t go that far and accept that nature is the only account of everything.