One of my favourite Proverbs is 14:4
Where there are no oxen, the stall is clean, but from the strength of an ox comes an abundant harvest.Â
In order to have a harvest, you’ll have to put up with a fair whack of crap! Â I was thinking of this in relation to the problem of evil. Â In order to have an existence where relationship and meaning are real, you’ll have to have genuine freedom and thus put up with evil and suffering. Â I might put it in proverb form like this:
“Where there is no genuine freedom, the cosmos is void of evil and suffering;but from the genuine freedom given to creation, comes the possibility of love, meaning and relationship.”