Little Redemptions

Focusing today on Annie Dillard's lines from “For the Time Being":

“You cannot mend the chromosome, quell the earthquake, or stanch the flood. You cannot atone for the dead tyrants’ murders and you alone cannot stop living tyrants.

As Martin Buber saw it, the world of ordinary days ‘affords’ us that precise association with God that redeems both us and our speck of world."