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Is there an answer to the question of why bad things happen to good people?...The response would be_to forgive the world for not being perfect, to forgive God for not making a better world, to reach out to the people around us, and to go on living despite it all_no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it has happened.
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Is there an answer to the question of why bad things happen to good people?...The response would be_to forgive the world for not being perfect, to forgive God for not making a better world, to reach out to the people around us, and to go on living despite it all_no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it has happened.

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