"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



Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Rainbows



I found out yesterday that a friend of mine is going through some real crap right now. The world is trying “ to break” her as Hemingway described it and I am praying that she will “be strong in the broken places” at some point down the road on her journey. Life in so many ways and at so many times is just plain hard! We all want to ask why? It feel like “…sheer undiluted slog…” and I believe it is at these moments in some unfathomable way God’s grace comes. It comes in different ways for people, but it comes, and when it arrives it is always sufficient for that moment in life.
Another friend of my mine that has been through hell and out the other side was telling me about a John Prine song this past weekend and one particular lyric in it, “…A rainbow may follow up a hurricane…” and I think there is grace and truth in that line. He has found his rainbow and I am assured that as we all walk through our life, we will have hurricanes and there will be rainbows – most likely the rainbows will appear when we least expect them. And in that way, rainbows have a lot in common with grace as they are both at the same time wonderful and beautiful.
May you all find a little grace today…
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