didn’t have to like what was happening relieved a great burden from me. In the rest of this chapter I want to turn from things that didn’t help to things that did. These things didn’t all happen at once, and in some cases it took a while for their import to sink in. If you are wrestling with the religious problem of evil, none of these comments may help you now, but at some point they may, so don’t hesitate to come back to this later. One thing that did help over time came in a conversation