Tuesday, March 03, 2009
new life
We cannot escape the passages of our life and indeed our bodies insist that we take seriously the pattern of change. . . . There is no choice in the whole process of ageing; loss is frightening, particularly when it means the loss of much that has been most valued and enjoyed, as memory grows faulty, or sight begins to fail or hearing becomes diminished.
Change may be a long drawn out and agonizing process, a marriage falling apart or a breakdown which threatens the integrity of the person. Bereavement itself brings a sense of loss which may at times seem almost unendurable.
Yet even here, though this may at the time be almost impossible to believe, new life can come again. . . . The past has brought me to this moment and if I begin today anew I can also begin tomorrow anew and the day after that, and so I shall be truly open to change.
-- Esther de Waal Seeking God: The Way of St. Benedict
Change may be a long drawn out and agonizing process, a marriage falling apart or a breakdown which threatens the integrity of the person. Bereavement itself brings a sense of loss which may at times seem almost unendurable.
Yet even here, though this may at the time be almost impossible to believe, new life can come again. . . . The past has brought me to this moment and if I begin today anew I can also begin tomorrow anew and the day after that, and so I shall be truly open to change.
-- Esther de Waal Seeking God: The Way of St. Benedict
