Grief, remorse, and sorrow are strong words. People try to avoid them and the situations that occasion their use. The title of this article might bring mixed reaction to readers. It might hint at the thought of an anthropomorphic God, sorrowing over the outcome of a mortal and fatally flawed creation.
This title might also bring to mind a mother's or father's heartbreak over the direction that a beloved child's grown-up life has taken. But the words actually come from a New Testament letter of Paul, the Christian disciple.
Paul deeply cared for incipient Christianity. The life and teachings of Christ Jesus had wrought a profound change in his life. He saw that those teachings had the potential for working a profound change in the lives of others—a change that could pull misdirected lives back from the brink of disaster.
