The children are with us for the whole service, and I will be talking to them, but I hope that everyone will find some meaning in this. When I was a child, I believed that life is fair. When we are very small, most of us have caring adults who take care of everything. We feel protected, and from this, we conclude that life is fair. What a shock it is to realize that life is not fair.
Some children learn that very early.
This week I watched pictures of children in a hospital in the far-away land of Chechnya. They had done nothing wrong, but there is a war going on between Chechnya and Russia, and bombs had fallen from the sky and injured the children terribly. They know that life isn't fair. When we realize that life is unfair, we may feel confused or angry. The unfairness of life is one of the major themes of the religions of the world.