"The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."
~ Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms



"Our lives disconnect and reconnect, we move on, and later we may touch one another, again bounce away. This is the felt shape of a human life, neither simply linear nor wholly disjunctive nor endlessly bifurcating, but rather this bouncey sequence of bumping into's and tumblings apart."
~ Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet



Sunday, January 17, 2010

Late Night Ponderings...



Well, it is late – or early depending how you want to look at it I guess. Either way I am not sleeping yet as there are too many thoughts ruminating around in my mind! Had a great evening, went to the Vineyard Church in Duluth with my friend Matt and we met a friend of his, Maggie there. After the service the three of us ended up going out to eat and having some drinks – another experience of grace.

Tonight there are some words that I keep looking at and pondering, “…but there is nowhere for this to go…” – these words describe how we often feel in life I think yet, I can’t help but thinking there is somewhere to go and that is forward, in some way forward. Moving backwards in life or anything seems like dying in some way and to be alive seems so much more rewarding - to love, to risk, to venture in some way the life of the heart aglow with vitality.

It’s late and I hope this rambling makes some sense. Good night!
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