If you enjoy rock and roll music, particularly that of the Seventies, you may have heard the news:  Christian McVie, a longstanding member of the British band Fleetwood Mac and one of its most prolific songwriters, passed away yesterday.  She was 79.

    But her music will live on.  One of her most famous songs, enshrined in the excitement of Bill Clinton's 1992 election to the presidency of the United States, is "Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow."  It's a song of optimism, a song of hope:  never cease imagining that there will be another day.

    And there will be.  Yet therein is the glory, and tragedy, of humanness.  Highly gifted, made in God's image, yet a captive of her finitude, Ms. McVie demonstrates to us that, in the big picture, though we are wonderfully designed and created, we are enormously fragile.

    Ironically, we are also made to dream of another day.  Futile though finitude may be, it can't be completely contained in a meaningful and intentionally created world.

    Rest well, Christian McVie.