What would be most appropriate for the U.S.'s estimated 30 million atheists, agnostics, freethinkers and secularists would be a living garden, symbolizing renewal, and that life continues even in the midst of tragedy. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
Yet there is also the sense of incompleteness because we find ourselves in the midst of tragedy and with hopes not yet realized. (religion-online.org)
It is an optimism for creaturely existence borne of the grace that transforms and sustains life in the midst of the tragedies of history. (firstthings.com)