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"Strange are the uses of adversity"
Apr. 3rd, 2006 10:32 am"My point here is that you never do know the actual nature of even your own experience. Or perhaps it has it has no fixed and certain nature."
--Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
I thought about these words for a while last night. It's true, mostly. We really don't know how the moment we are in will eventually play out. Even the things that seem certain to bring joy or pain never quite end up where we think they will. Unexpected blessings appear in the midst of sorrow; joy is tempered by the realization that it cannot last.
And what of those moments in-between? The ones that are seemingly neutral, or leaning ever so slightly in one direction or the other? Where will they lead?
These are the moments that fascinate me--the ones where I am aware that something is happening, but not quite sure what it is.
I look across the table at you, and our eyes meet. Will this moment be forgotten? Or will it be something I will remember forever--the beginning of something life-changing? We can only know in retrospect.
--Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
I thought about these words for a while last night. It's true, mostly. We really don't know how the moment we are in will eventually play out. Even the things that seem certain to bring joy or pain never quite end up where we think they will. Unexpected blessings appear in the midst of sorrow; joy is tempered by the realization that it cannot last.
And what of those moments in-between? The ones that are seemingly neutral, or leaning ever so slightly in one direction or the other? Where will they lead?
These are the moments that fascinate me--the ones where I am aware that something is happening, but not quite sure what it is.
I look across the table at you, and our eyes meet. Will this moment be forgotten? Or will it be something I will remember forever--the beginning of something life-changing? We can only know in retrospect.
