I'll Make My Covenant Between Me and Thee, and Thou Shalt Be a Father of Many Nations

The fundamental reality of life is tragedy and suffering. God's perfectly happy to grant the people with whom he forms a covenant happiness and prosperity, but there's never a word that that's the purpose. The rule is, aim high and get your bloody act together,. And if you do that properly, then now and then you get some happiness. You can sit at the end of a day and you have half an hour where your conscience is clear, andyou can relax and think, "Things are o k"...