Do you remember the tennis player Arthur Ashe saying something along these lines? He had contracted AIDS, I recall, via a blood transfusion. In an interview, Mr. Ashe refused to blame God, saying “If I asked ‘Why me?’ about this bad thing that has happened, I’d also have to ask ‘Why me?’ about all the blessings in my life: my career, my wife, my child.” What, indeed, have we done to deserve any of this?
Do you remember the tennis player Arthur Ashe saying something along these lines? He had contracted AIDS, I recall, via a blood transfusion. In an interview, Mr. Ashe refused to blame God, saying “If I asked ‘Why me?’ about this bad thing that has happened, I’d also have to ask ‘Why me?’ about all the blessings in my life: my career, my wife, my child.” What, indeed, have we done to deserve any of this?