“Part of being wise in this world is learning to accept that we have only very limited access to the big picture. To be sure, we often want access to it—for God has “put eternity into man’s heart”—but the point is that we “cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end” (3:11). God is not being unkind to us by not sharing it; the point is that we are not built to understand the big picture, precisely because we live in time and God does not. If we could see the end from the beginning, and understand how a billion lives and a thousand generations and unspeakable sorrows and untold joys are all woven into a tapestry of perfect beauty, then we would be God.” (David Gibson)