That's always the trouble, isn't it, when trying to comprehend the incomprehensible. Of course a finite mind can't understand the motivations of an infinite one.

Whether it is personally interested in the lives of all creatures everywhere is not really my department, but believing it exists makes my job a whole lot easier to do.

Aren't you a geologist? How does this affect your job?

(Supposedly A Grief Observed is supposed to be the more helpful book to the genuinely mourning. I haven't picked it up yet.)