Good Coming from Upheaval?

I actually took this photo at Yosemite.  It's not a stock photo from the internet.

I read a great book this weekend.   It's called The Weathering Grace of God by Ken Gire.  It's about all the beauty in nature that comes from upheaval on the earth.

One of the passages I appreciated most was about answering the questions of Why.  It went something like this:

Explaining the geological reasons for why a volcano erupted and destroyed a home doesn't really make the people who are homeless feel better, so why do we expect that explaining a theological reason for hardships in our lives to make us feel any better.  My words.  His were better.  I should have quoted, but I'm too tired to go get the book and find the page.

It's a super book.  I gave it to my father a couple years ago thinking it was just about nature and why people love to mountain climb.  He gave a copy to me last summer and told me to read it when I was ready.  Finished it in one day.  I was ready.