pens, down to the smallest detail, down to the ashen heap of her burned belongings, is evidence of God's will in the world and in her life. The will of God to Bradstreet as a Puritan believer is just, and, therefore, that which exists is both the will of God and is just by definition, even though human beings can hardly understand such a supernatural fact in rational terms: "so it was, and so 'twas just."
Again, as she saw the love of her marriage as but a shadow of the love they will experience in the Hereafter, in the case of her burned house, she is reminded that as wonderful as her home might have been in all the details she draws and remembers, it is but a pale reflection of the home which God has promised to the be
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