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Who We Are
Mar. 29th, 2015 07:50 am
A fellow-traveler in Seattle sent me this week some words of Jack Kerouac. We know him best through his “On the Road.” His critics said he was a fallen man, a bad man in all his debauchery. I say he was a man at the core of his being who was love, a beautiful man and that actually his story is the story of his search and travel to God, back to the love he always was.
Kerouac said, “ I wake up in the morning with my cross around my neck, I realize what thicks and thins I’ll have to wear this through, and ask myself “What would Catholics and Christians say about me wearing the cross to ball and drink like this?–but what would Jesus say if I went up to him and said ‘May I wear Your cross in this world as it is? No matter what happens, may I wear your cross?"
Thank you
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bardcat - Bardcat's original article is on his LJ page, found HERE
Is There Anything Eternal?
Jan. 16th, 2015 10:35 ambardcat at Is There Anything Eternal?There are good friends among us who believe that this life, this body, is all there is and there is no more.
But what happens when, not if, in the sweep of the journey, our bodies fail as they invariably will? What are we left with which will sustain us to our dying breath?
All our lives, we are told that our bodies are the temple of God and that it is important to take care of our bodies, to keep them fit by what we eat and drink, what we ingest. We are told to exercise if we simply walk and breathe in and out. We are told that worry, stress and negative thinking are not in the interest of a healthy or well-rounded life.
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