Physicist and priest...

Balsam root and lupine bloom along the glacier view trail,
Horse Lake Reserve, Wenatchee, Wash.

Physicist and priest John Polkinghorn

speaks of “A creation in which creatures are allowed

'to make themselves.'”

He's trying to explain

how human moral evil

and suffering might come to be.

He also observes: “...the problem of evil is too profound

to be dealt with ... by any form of moral bookkeeping,

as if one were simply casting up creation's ethical profit-and-loss account....”

For me, against the weight of all the world's suffering,

the only satisfying possibility

is the idea God might somehow enter in.