“The Human
Condition: As User’s Manual,” by Arnold Kunst
30 December
We’d
be wise to do what Jesus did at the beginning of what the Bible calls His
public ministry when He spent 30 days in the desert, all alone. Mind you, it’d
be a desert as distinctive to ourselves as His was to Him. After all, He was
surrounded by His own home-grown demons, surreal and terrifying; He confronted
them with a courage and simplicity that, I think, you and I are called to
emulate. In fact, I think a case can be made that His insights into human
nature, His capacity to satiate most profoundly the varying hungers of those in
His immediate circle, was powered by that desert experience. Maybe the dynamic
is constant - maybe, like Him, you and I are to satiate the varying hungers of
those in our immediate circle, powered by our desert experience. He's led the
way, it is our privilege to follow that path.
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