"God gave you a cross to carry - the weight precisely tailored to your capacity if you called on Him in your heart - and told you to drag it up to Heaven's gate. Ignatius had never faltered."
-SM Stirling, The Desert And The Blade (New York, 2016), Chapter Seven, p. 109.
Here is another story: each of us must cleanse karma caused by beginningless greed, hate and delusion. Philosophically and spiritually, I am closer to this alternative story. Although I do not think that motivations are beginningless, causation might be. And I do not expect to reach the entrance to a hereafter. Meanwhile, hopefully, we cooperate in coping with life.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
And this metaphor about bearing one's cross with patience goes straight back to Chirst Himself, who urged His disciples to take up their crosses and follow Him.
Sean
Sean,
That sounds to me like the sort of statement that would have been attributed to Christ after it was known how he had died.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
But, as you know, I don't agree with the "minimalists" who deny Christ said many of the things I believe He did say. The metaphor about taking up one's cross sounds exactly like something He would say.
Sean
Post a Comment