Revisiting A Theme
“Teach us to count our days that we may gain a wise heart.”
--Psalm 90: 12
One book that can be a helpful devotional book is Tuesdays with Morrie. Just a couple of weeks ago, I called our attention to the quote I am using again today. It deserves repetition!!!!! Morrie, as you may recall, is a retired college professor who is dying from ALS. His former student, hearing of his former professor’s illness, decides to take some of his Tuesdays flying from Detroit to Boston just to learn some more from Morrie.
“If you hold back on the emotions—if you don’t allow yourself to go all the way through them—you can never get to being detached, you’re too busy being afraid. You’re afraid of the pain, you’re afraid of the grief. You’re afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. By throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely. You know what pain is, what love is, what grief is.”
He then shares this powerful observation: “I know you think this is just about dying, but it’s like I keep telling you: When you learn how to die, you learn how to live.”
May your day and your weekend be filled with wonderful (difficult) encounters with the emotions of your soul.
A prayer for today: O God, give me courage to face the emotions of my soul. Amen.
Ben Keckler
03.14.08
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