We can only make sense of our particular stories once we view ourselves as participants in God’s Story. The story of Redemption helps us understand how God is restoring the world He created “very good”.
In the film, The Tree of Life, these words are whispered as the agonized plea of a mother suffering the loss of her nineteen-year old son. How is she to make sense of this tragic twist in her story? What sort of a God would allow this to happen? Does He care? Is there any meaning to it all?