July 30: Is All Human Suffering The Same Suffering?
Grateful to WT for sending me the Joyce Kilmer poem “Prayer of a Soldier in France,” I’m sharing on my own blog the piece which the poem inspired me to write, as it was published on Agnellus Mirror. The Mirror’s daily reflections are a wonderful source for inspiration! To read Kilmer’s moving poem, written before he was killed in World War I, go to Agnellus Mirror for the July 30 reflection, “100 years ago today.” For more on Joyce Kilmer, check out this link: https://www.warmemorial.columbia.edu/alfred-joyce-kilmer
Strasbourg Cathedral: the risen Christ brings Adam and Eve out of Hell to Paradise.
Is all human suffering the same suffering
– the suffering of God who is a Man?
Did he not exist before all of us?
Did he not live in the unfathomable joy
of endless, ceaseless, divine
love, so resplendent that it brought forth galaxies
of stars and blue and green planets
teeming with flowering, fluttering, soaring life?
And when the great joy of his creation, so wondrously beloved,
became the great pain of its falling – just in a moment
slipped
from his grasp of tender love – seeing it, feeling it, sensing it collapse
in the misery of mistakes immeasurable and immutable,
with agony as immense as the ecstasy
that rushed the universe into being, then infinity was cut through
with the loss of its loveliest part,
the part given freely and generously in
hopeful…
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Although crippled by disease, I'm fully alive in love. I write about the terrible beauty and sacred wonder of life, while living with physical disability and severe dependency. A revert to the Catholic faith through atheism, I'm not afraid to ask life's big questions. I explore what it means to be fully human through my weekly blog and have written a book: It's Good to Be Here, published by Sophia Institute Press.
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