"Sometimes, in a moral struggle, we discover the right thing to do -- just as, on some cold day long ago, we discovered mittens pinned to our coat sleeve."
"Faith is a reluctance to accept a partial explanation for something fully explainable by a miracle."
"Life is full of mysteries and miracles, fewer of the first if you believe in the second."
"The human body is 60% water, which, like all water everywhere, is on an inexorable journey back to the sea."
"Everything we possess that is not necessary for life or happiness becomes a burden, and scarcely a day passes that we do not add to it."
-- Robert Brault
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
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The first one is my favorite. I love the image of our moral fiber being there, so near and accessible when we need it. I love the memories it conjured up of my childhood in Minnesota. Yes, the mittens were always right there at the end of my sleeves. Right when I needed them the most. (you know that you have to remove mittens to make the best snowballs!)
Liz, -- yes, growing up in New England, I know about mittens and snowballs. I hope that my wording makes clear that the moral fiber came from the same source as the mittens.
smiles,
rb
I love what you wrote about miracles.
I am not sure whether I should or should not believe in miracles, or if miracles are simply mysteries we don't have the capacity to explain yet. Whatever the case may be, I love how you put it, and does remind me that sometimes, I don't need to understand, but simply accept and be done with it.
thanks for your beautiful words.
Daisy
Daisy,
The question is, what do we accept in order to be done with it? Normally we accept a miracle to resolve a mystery, a good example being the acceptance of black holes and singularities -- utterly miraculous concepts -- to resolve the mystery of how worlds come and go.
smiles,
rb
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