Giving away a vast fortune to charity is stuff of headlines. Sometimes it does actually happen. What I really like about this book is the second chance it accords to Nate O'Riley.
What would you think about a woman who knowingly took a baby and groom the child to be a future care giver so that she would have a kind of willing 'slave' when she is old and unable to walk and manage her own affairs?
If she then wrote a will and leave behind a sufficient amount for the now 35-year-old former carer with no marketable skills whatsoever to live the rest of her life on, does it absolve her guilt of ruining the girl's life?
If somehow, the trusted executor played the girl out and left her penniless at the mercy of relatives? Then the track record of this executor who adopted orphans, who supported the homeless just seemed to be marred by one thing that seemed out of character to the entire pattern. And if this executor happened some day use one of the younger adopted children for the same purpose as the earlier testator, how would you feel?
It is a good thing that the final arbiter is not our judges but God in the final analysis. However, if we believe that there is no God, then all is lost.
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