Our Eyes Are At Fault...
Dietrich Bonhoffer and Maria von Wedemeyier, Love Letters from Cell 92: The Correspondence between Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Maria Von Wedemeyer, 1943-1945, ed. Von Bismark and Kabitz, trans. John Brownjohn (Nashville: Abingdon, U.S. Edition 1995):
“We shall ponder the incomprehensibility of our lot and be assailed by the question of why, over and above the darkness already enshrouding humanity, we should be subjected to the bitter anguish of a separation that we fail to understand. How hard it is, inwardly to accept what defies our understanding; how great the temptation to feel ourselves at the mercy of blind chance; how sinister the way in which mistrust and resentment steal into our hearts at such times; and how readily we fall prey to the childish notion that course of our lives reposes in human hands! And then, just when everything is bearing down on us to an extent that we can scarce withstand it, the Christmas message comes to tells us that all our ideas are wrong, and that what we take to be evil and dark is really good and light because it comes from God. Our eyes are at fault, that is all.”
Perhaps.
Taken from this article.
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We were trying to figure out if we’d changed in the past two years. She said I seemed more alive now.
"Maria, these walls were not built to shut out problems."
Maria: I left… I was frightened… I was confused. I felt, I’ve never felt that way before, I couldn’t stay. I knew that here I’d be away from it. I’d be safe… I can’t face him again… Oh, there were times when we would look at each other. Oh, Mother, I could hardly breathe… That’s what’s been torturing me. I was there on God’s errand. To have asked for his love would have been wrong. I couldn’t stay, I just couldn’t. I’m ready at this moment to take my vows. Please help me.
Reverend Mother: Maria, the love of a man and a woman is holy too. You have a great capacity to love. What you must find out is how God wants you to spend your love.
Maria: But I pledged my life to God. I pledged my life to his service.
Reverend Mother: My daughter, if you love this man, it doesn’t mean you love God less. No, you must find out and you must go back.
Maria: Oh, Mother, you can’t ask me to do that. Please let me stay, I beg of you.
Reverend Mother: Maria, these walls were not built to shut out problems. You have to face them. You have to live the life you were born to live.
87.11%
I currently have an 87.11% in anatomy with 260 points (a lab exam, lecture exam and final exam) left to be had. At this point I could fail the remainder of the tests and still end up with a B or I could get high A’s on the remainder of the tests and end up with a low A. What a terrible place to be.
The Lonely 1
Genuine Christian love is forged against the anvil of our selfishness and possessiveness
… It is important to remember that love is more than a feeling. It is active and transitive. The real test of my loving is not that I feel loving, but that the other person feels loved by me. Love is what I do to create this sense of feeling cared for.
- Morton T. Kelsey, from his book Companions on the Inner Way
Every Now And Then On My Mind
It rained tonight and it was so beautiful I could have wept in joy, but I ended up running through it and getting drenched and out of breath instead.
Sheep Brain Dissection
First we cut off tons of fat from the eye and all the dura mater. Dura mater (the outermost connective tissue that covers pretty much all of the CNS) is extremely tough to cut through.
If this was a human brain it wouldn’t be able to lay on a flat surface and carry its own weight and would end up as a pile of mush, which is why our brains are surrounded by CSF and sort of float in our heads rather than sit on top of any surface.
Capt. Crewe: You know, dolls make the very best friends. Just because they can’t speak doesn’t mean they don’t listen. And did you know that when we leave them alone in our room, they come to life?
Sara Crewe: They do?
Capt. Crewe: Yes! But before we walk in and catch them, they return to their place as quick as lightning!
Sara Crewe: Why don’t they come to life in front of us so we can see them?
Capt. Crewe: Because it’s magic. Magic has to be believed. It’s the only way it’s real.
Someone please join my on an adventure to Sin City to see this exhibition. It would be a dream come true.
