"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



Thursday, February 25, 2010

Grace…The Union of Beauty and Experience….





Experience:

Existence of experience = ontological
Knowledge of experience = epistemological

“Existential Being”

“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”
- C.S. Lewis






Beauty:

Existence of Beauty = ontological
Knowledge of Beauty = epistemological

“Existential Wonder”

“Oh beauty so old and so new! To late have I loved thee.”
-Augustine

Beauty and experience create a space for grace to enter a life – your life and my life. A space for the union of our being and our wonder to be one so that we can taste and feel and know these moments even these brief moments of time in our hearts – as the ineffable, the divine.

Whether we know it or not, whether we acknowledge it or not, we become “…now and then….here and there…” as Paul Tillich described it, “…a new creation on earth…” for after this we are not the same. This may cause some ache, some angst to want more of this, and it may become acute and what Kierkegaard explained as a “leap of faith” may be necessary even with all the “fear and trembling” that is involved in such a “leap.” To know what is true involves risk.
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