Ellen makes her way over to sit on the bed, because just at the moment it doesn't look like close contact would be welcome. "It's possible. I can't claim to know what your world's metaphysics are like, or whether God or whoever controls it would do that kind of thing," she says. "But- look, for what it's worth, I'm a military chaplain. And just speaking from my experience as a soldier, I've found that when you do impossible things and live to tell about them, more often than not, your reward is being asked to do something even harder. It's not a punishment. It's that your deeds stand out."
"I know it's not comforting, it's just- I don't think it's that you weren't good enough. It sounds more like you did something amazing enough to get you noticed when somebody amazing was needed."
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Ellen makes her way over to sit on the bed, because just at the moment it doesn't look like close contact would be welcome. "It's possible. I can't claim to know what your world's metaphysics are like, or whether God or whoever controls it would do that kind of thing," she says. "But- look, for what it's worth, I'm a military chaplain. And just speaking from my experience as a soldier, I've found that when you do impossible things and live to tell about them, more often than not, your reward is being asked to do something even harder. It's not a punishment. It's that your deeds stand out."
"I know it's not comforting, it's just- I don't think it's that you weren't good enough. It sounds more like you did something amazing enough to get you noticed when somebody amazing was needed."