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Zeigler John's avatar

My wonderful second wife died two years ago in November, and I grieve her, and my first wife, as well. Megan Divine in her excellent work on grief, It's Okay That You're Not Okay offers this gem: "Love is not enough, but it is all that we have." We cannot reverse our mortality or the ills of this world, but love alone will carry us and enable us to carry the inevitable burdens as well.

Joyce Reed's avatar

Thank you, Chris . . . so much to be grateful for. Glad you hold to the larger perspectives . . .

Joan Mistretta's avatar

Thanks, Chris. I don't know how the person in the comment below can say that. What on earth does "get the job done" even mean in this context. Never mind, just thanks.

Sera's avatar

If I were to guess, I think it means that those who impose destructive control on the people are impervious to love, disdainful of compassion.

Otherwise known as psychopaths.

This is pretty much what I had in mind with my other comment.

John Ressler's avatar

Chris can't answer that, perhaps the commenter could address it.

Sera's avatar

I learned long ago that love and hate are not opposites. Good and Evil are not opposites.

It relates to what Niels Bohr said about truth. “Simple truths state things that are empirically true. Deep truths are truths that are not only true, but the opposite is also true.”

And I say that love exists on a completely separate plane from hate, and from evil. Hatred is simple. Love is light and at the same time, love is shade.

The Evil that’s coming from Israel is not the opposite of love, it’s the opposite of life. No amount of love can conquer it; it must perish from its own weight.

Chris's avatar

Love doesn’t get the job done in America sorry to say

Vivian Tapp's avatar

I am grateful and honoring that you are carrying the burden of evil for all of us. You don't stop or shy away when I am overwhelmed daily by grief. I believe love is enough but that doesn't stop evil from fighting against it every minute. Bless you Chris.

Robert Johannson's avatar

Love does not desire to conquer. If it did, it wouldn't be love.

Which is why it is the meaning of life, in a way that conquest can never be.

R I Long's avatar

Exactly what I needed to hear today. Thank you, Chris.

Cathy Deppe's avatar

What is meant by “deity is malevolent”? in your reference to Moby Dick ?

Rose's avatar

Very nice to see the brilliant color of your shirt in this solemn report.