He asks us to think of humanity as “a fleet of ships sailing in formation” and what makes it successful: George (Costanza) (Feb.The other is when things go wrong inside the individual-when the different parts of him (his different faculties, and desires, and so on) either drift apart or interfere with one another.
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Love, Duty, And A Friend’s Death (Aug.God’s Jigsaw Puzzle Needs Every Piece (July 18, 2021).My Mom’s Christian Lesson: ‘Offer It Up' (May 16, 2021).God's Mirth Sanctifies Our Laughter (Apr.Perhaps the greatest suffering in time will seem puny indeed next to the smallest joy in eternity.Įditor's Note: If you would like to receive a weekly email each Sunday with links to the faith posts on TaxProf Blog, email me here. Perhaps it will be like stepping back from “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte,” to a vantage point where finally we can see ourselves as lovingly interconnected parts of a most splendid whole. Perhaps when time and space merge into one, we shall see all lives-those young and old, flourishing and cut short-in their native and restored glory. But continuing the metaphor of time, maybe we have to finish life’s book, one in which we ourselves are characters, before we can grasp the fullness of its meaning. Trusting it neither always was so nor always will be so is comforting, but such trust hardly relieves the pain of something as tragic as the death of a child. Given so glorious a source and a summit-so magnificent a spiritual heritage and destiny-a present that is perpetually plagued by suffering does seem maddening. Lewis, unsurprisingly, said it best: “If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.”. Where we come from assures us we’re not, to use a great Walker Percy phrase, “lost in the cosmos,” and this helps contextualize suffering. Like gazing at “ A Sunday on La Grande Jatte,” Georges Seurat’s most famous painting in pointillist style, the sense that can be made of suffering requires distance, not of space, but rather of time. I had occasion recently to reflect on the nature of suffering while consoling a friend grieving the loss of his beautiful young daughter. American Greatness Op-Ed: Standing Back to See More Clearly, by Mike Kerrigan (Hunton Andrews Kurth, Charlotte, NC):
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