"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



Friday, June 18, 2010

Grace...



You know what…I have no words to express what I am feeling tonight…it all (life) has to be, is, bigger, broader, wider, more, less, all, and yet nothing, all at the same time and yet not in time, all we can and cannot imagine, more beautiful and astounding and horrible and ugly…it is all that and not that…it is and not is…all that is in-between - both in the silence and in the noise of the clasping of waves and the brightness and darkness of all that may or may not be and yet is. The why and the why not…the how and the what and not, the being and non-being…the knowing and not knowing, all the being and all the nothingness and yet all that there is at the same time…all the life and death, the sin, the brokenness and helplessness, the pain, the struggle, the loss…and the joy, smiles, laughter…forgiveness,mercy,acceptance of our own acceptance and the peace that comes eventually in the still moments of despair...

And, and, in the face and reality of it all that there can be and is, there is grace that comes smashing through it all to obliterate all that we can conceive of and to wash and clean it all and make it all new, as new as the morning and the rising of the sun that warms the faces that are full of tears from the darkness of the long night!!!

I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know…and yet I do...

The Cross, Love and Grace…"3"…Trinity…