Overwhelmed

It's been a rough week.  I suppose the natural human impulse is to ask: "why?" when faced with senseless suffering and I've certainly felt that a great deal this week with Alice's death.  And then, when I think more about it, would I feel better even if I knew why?  Could I even truly understand from my limited perspective?   Overwhelming stress makes me into a couch potato, surfing the internet mindlessly, looking to lose the stress by losing my train of depressing thought.  Imagine my surprise to come across this quote by my aunt:

"the Atonement is infinite.  The ocean is endless; the waves constant.  Eventually, every hole, every gorge will disappear without a trace, no matter how ravaged the landscape, through the Atonement of Jesus Christ."  Sally B Palmer, 'Clothed with Charity'  Talks from the 1996 Women's Conference  BYU press, p 122-123.