I am substituting at a local elementary school today. Caring for a boy who can't keep his balance because he doesn't have a cerebellum. Currently they gave me a break in the library and I am reading, and came across this interesting quote:
"In the arc of an unremarkable life, a life whose triumphs are small and personal, whose trials are ordinary enough, as tempered in their pain as in their resolution of pain, the claim of exclusivity in love requires both a certain kind of courage and a good dose of delusion...
Those of us who claim exclusivity in love do so with a liar's courage: there are a hundred opportunities, thousands over the years, for a sense of falsehood to seep in, for all that we imagine as inevitable to become arbitrary, for our history together to reveal itself as only a matter of chance and happenstance, nothing irrepeatable, or irreplaceable, the circumstancial mingling of just one of the many million with just one more"
(Alice Mcdermott's Charming Billy p. 241).
Rabib,
I think it would be great if you could put up a link to your syllabi so we can see what kind of stuff you are reading in seminary.
Murr
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Fascinating Quote. In a world dictated by chance and circumstance, I imagine this is as honest a view as one could hold toward love. (I think I would still madly hold to the exclusive importance of my love in that it is MINE, it is what i, in this random history of the world, am experience. I would give my love value based on the fact that of all the cominglings of history, this is mine and i find pleasure in it.) But if God did create the world and does sustain it, and HE has determined that human love is a good thing, then my love is transcendantly valuable (and more and more valuable as it matches the pattern of love He revealed to us).
This is my first posting. I like what you guys have going.
Sir Pablo (SP)
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