My blog is titled "No Man is an Island," which comes from a quote by John Donne at the top of my blog but is also a book by Thomas Merton. I started this blog about 2 years ago, and I had just started this book when I began my blog. Well, I'm now about halfway through the book. Clearly, it's taken me a while, and I'll read a few pages every few weeks. I hadn't picked the book up for quite a while, but last night I decided to grab a book that wasn't for school and I turned to Merton.
Today is the one-year marking of the accident that I mentioned three blogs ago (see "One Year Later," April 14, 2007 as well as post from May 3, 2006). With many thoughts going through my mind last night, this is part of what I read and thought it would be fitting to share here:
"[Christ's] love is so much stronger than death that the death of a Christian is a kind of triumph. And although we rightly sorrow at the separation from those we love (since we are also meant to love their human presence), yet we rejoice in their death because it proves to us the strength of our mutual love. The conviction in our hearts, the unshakeable hope of communion with our dead in Christ, is always telling us that they live and that He lives and that we live. This is our great inheritance, which can only be increased by suffering well taken: this terrific grip of the divine life on our own souls, this grip of clean love that holds us so fast that it keeps us eternally free. This love, this life, this presence, is the witness that the spirit of Christ lives in us, and that we belong to Him, and that the Father has given us to Him, and no man shall snatch us out of His hand" (p. 87-88).
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