Beyond Rivalry

Dorothy Whiston at Preaching Peace was faced recently with serious illness (extensive pulmonary emboli) and the possibility of dying. As she says it so well:

 

"For years I've had a hard time wrapping my mind and heart around Girard's and Alison's and others' words about how death as we understand and experience it doesn't exist in God. At first, it simply made my head spin to consider that this unknowable and foreboding biological incidental, inherent in all material existence, could be experienced in an entirely different way than we usually do. ...

 

"Through this close up and personal encounter with death God has let me know that a really fundamental shift has taken place in my psyche. I never wavered during this ordeal in my desire to continue to live on this earth if that was possible, but there was no desperation or fear, or really much emotion at all, in contemplating moving on to whatever might be next."

 

More here.

 

She also sends out thanks to Gil Bailie (as do I) for his recent insightful and moving words about death, grief, and love in the wake of his wife's death in February.

("And death shall have no dominion" is a line from a Dylan Thomas poem)