The dispensation of suffering

"When they knock down your front door, how you gonna come?"

There are things in life we do not get to choose. We can choose our response to a given situation, but fate has a major hand in deciding what situations we will encounter in the first place. I say this because I have recently rearranged my thinking on an old idea.

(Note: this is not a cheerful post. It’s not for children, either.)

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From my library

…If, like Seneca, we want to measure God, then maybe just for today we need to employ some alternate instrument. A poet from the T’ang dynasty has a surprising suggestion for us…

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