So, god doesn’t make mistakes? I won’t attempt to convince you otherwise, but he does like to challenge us by throwing curveballs, yes? It is possible for a baby to be born with a hole in her heart. Whatever purpose god may intend, to our human minds this is a cruel twist of fate and we must fix it. Which may, in fact, be the point. Compassion, justice, science, medicine, and everything else we have achieved, on some level, exists to save, cherish, and uplift the weakest among us. We don’t need to know why. We don’t need to know if fate can be altered. We try anyway, because we are a loving kind of creature.

To put it another way, shit happens. I am not here to debate whether or not shit happens, because clearly it does, and I for one am glad plumbing exists.