Yesterday was a day which all of us, here, there, and everywhere, should remember. Why?  It was Holocaust Remembrance Day.  Coupled with next week's commemoration of the Armenian Genocide of 1915, Holocaust Day forces us to confront the tragic legacy of human evil.  Are we really evil?  Are we really inherently bad?
     No, we are not.  But many of us do very evil things, things that often strain the imagination, so horrific are they, so mindbogglingly indifferent to human worth and dignity they evince themselves to be.  We frequently find them incomprehensible.
     Yet humanity keeps going, keeps trucking across the planet, evil, horror, and all. Why? Well, why not?  Despite all that we do, we remain valuable creatures, valuable not because we deem ourselves to be, and valuable not because we feel ourselves capable of knowing genuine right and wrong, but valuable because we and this planet have been created with order, beauty, and purpose,  We have been made, not concocted; designed, not erupting into existence.  Were this not true, we would really have no basis to call good "good," and evil "evil."  In a world without explainable reason for being, how could we?
     We mourn with our Jewish brethren, we weep with our Armenian friends.  And we rejoice that we are human beings.  We rejoice that God loves us, that God made us, and that, in the person of Jesus, God became one of us.