See today’s reflection below.

Some desire to have children and can’t have them; others don’t want children but can’t seem to avoid them. Why is it that those of modest means are lavish in their gift-giving while misers horde their hidden treasure? Why is it that some of the rich waste their ample inheritance on trifles while the weeping beggar hardly gets a coin all day? Why is it that the undeserving are honored while those who live blameless lives are ignored by the crowd? These and other things in human life cause some humans to believe the world is not governed by Divine Providence. Others who cannot believe they have been abandoned by God are so confused by the chaos of the world that it is hard for them to see any order in it.

—On Order, 2.5.14-15