Words Which Hit Home
One of my daughter's favorite web sites is a place with lots and lots of cool quotes. She loves using them with her MSN Messenger. Anyway, she read me one last night that really touched me. It hit home, especially in the wake of what happened at Virginia Tech. I'd like to share it with all of you:
How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.
Yeah, I know.
