Stitches

Images of terrible things flashed across the screen of the television. Susan wanted to shut her eyes, but somehow they couldn’t help taking in all the suffering that was being shown on the news. People in one country were starving. People in another country had been hit by a flood. And still another country had been rocked by an earthquake. It was awful. “Why do such bad things happen, Mom?” she asked. Mother sighed. “At the very bottom of it all,” she paused for emphasis, “—is sin. Sin is...