George said

nothing is coincidence:

neither pain nor hurt

nor greeting nor move

nor ev'ry movement of sin

nor grace flying behind you

It's no coincidence

but God in mys'try

behind each event:

there to hold and love

forgive and push ahead

to wherever God's pushing

for the good of each

and each one's freedom

and each one's saving

including one's own

however that happens

including against one's will

*Thoughts of Gregory Wolfe:

-The Zen scholar R.H. Blyth once noted: "We are being sentimental when we give to a thing more tenderness than God gives to it."

-...Oscar Wilde hits closer to the mark: "a sentimentalist is one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it."

-When we are too tender about something, we can easily become too violent in seeking to defend or preserve it.

*There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

-Aristotle