Godric: Of the family of Godric, his youth, and a sign from the sea

After nearly drowning in the surf, Godric speaks of three lessons learned. The first was that the sea is mighty and one must always keep a wary eye on it. The second was the love of his sister. And the third, well that is the lesson we all of us must learn.
"He learned that it was Jesu saved him from the sea, though saved him why or saved for what deep end he did not learn, nor has he ever learned it to this day."
Of all the mysteries of life, even the mystery of God's existence, I find most puzzling the mystery of why. From the very beginning, God sets into motion a series of questionable choices. He chooses Jacob, the deceiver. David, the murderer and adulterer. Noah, the drunkard. Peter, the liar and quick-tempered. He picks out of the mulititude not the holy, but the weak, the spiteful, the arrogant.
Even greater to me than the question of God, only, I suppose, because I believe in God, is the crazy and bewildering question of why me, why any of us in this sick and ugly world? Peculiar choices we are, if we get right down to it.
And yet, over and over, without hesitation, unlike us, God chooses to dwell among us in the form of compassion, truth, beauty, or even an unexpected tear or burst of laughter. Perhaps we should stop with that chorus of "What a mighty God we serve," and begin anew with "What a perplexing God we serve."
The porpoise in that drowning surf that nearly took Godric's life said, "Take and eat me, Godric, to thy soul's delight." And God himself said to us, that final night, the same healing thing.