Posted by zazenducke on September 11, 2012, at 15:27:37
In reply to Re: Lou's Little Shoppe, posted by bleauberry on September 11, 2012, at 13:41:25
> But I can dictate what the discussion is in your shoppe. I say it is.....Jesus. Let's talk about that great man, Son of God, and what He has to say about our sufferings.
Are monks and hippies and poets relevant? No, we are deliberately irrelevant. We live with an ingrained irrelevance which is proper to every human being. The marginal [person] accepts the basic irrelevance of the human condition, an irrelevance which is manifested above all by the fact of death. The marginal person, the monk, the displaced person, the prisoner, all these people live in the presence of death, and the office of the monk or the marginal person, the meditative person or the poet is to go beyond death even in this life, to go beyond the dichotomy of life and death and to be, therefore, a witness to life.Thomas Merton. The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton. Naomi Burton, Brother Patrick Hart and James Laughlin, editors. New York: New Directions Press, 1969: 306.
People labeled mentally ill are often marginal aren't they? Suffering marginalizes people. Whether by choice or circumstance. Jesus says the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand right now right here!
take up your cross the realization that you will die your mortality and follow him to the very margins of life and death. Here where we areWhat does Jesus say to you about suffering?
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