As long as we have breath in our bodies, we have the opportunity to aim at becoming what we were originally intended to be. We can choose to use that breath, which in Hebrew also designates the living essence of who and what we are, to act like the Creator’s agents and image-bearers or to pursue what Solomon and every other great potentate and magnate has typically pursued in place of that.
Tag Archives: Mortality
Autumn Beards
The art of dying well is never out of date, but the wisdom to prepare for it is more and more rare. Instead, we have created a culture which obsesses about prolonging the illusions of youth. Our culture denies that those raging hormones need to be given proper channeling or they will curse both the individuals who abuse them and their victims. The strong and aggressive may use their raging energy (which is largely sexual repression and misappropriation) to subdue and destroy others. A subtler method of destroying the repressor and oppressor of one’s urges, or anyone who dares challenge the actions, causes, and words of the new class of revolutionaries, is to engage in outrage at every voice which suggests your preferred cause may be hollow. We now have whole masses substituting rage for the love they are seeking in all the wrong places.
World.V.You 