Greetings Dear Reader,
This past week, my dear friend Tom posted some thoughts
about people making memes or joking about deaths due to the virus. He poignantly reminded us that this loss
hurts someone and the joking about it may further the harm. He also reminded me that we are diminished by
the death of others.
When John Donne thought he was dying, he wrote the
following:
'No Man is an Island' - John Donne
No man is an island entire of itself; every man
is a piece of the continent, a part of the main;
if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe
is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as
well as any manner of thy friends or of thine
own were; any man's death diminishes me,
because I am involved in mankind.
And therefore, never send to know for whom
the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
MEDITATION XVII
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
We have seen many losses this year. I think we are already too desensitized to
death. Perhaps that is part of the diminishing. That is what I wish to explore for a few
miles. As we travel, we are going to
encounter death. There have been deaths
that have diminished me greatly and for a long time. There have been deaths that I have wrongly
wished or celebrated; not seeing how they diminished me.
As we journey together, I want to look at the ways in which
we are diminished by death. I wrote a
book about it, Chronicles of Thanatos the Reaper. This book began shortly after I understood
the necessity of death. This look at
death together, however, will not be a set of stories. Rather, I wish to be sure that I analyze death
as it diminishes us in this time. I want
to be sure that I honor every life.
What I will do is begin with the way in we are diminished
and analyze the losses. I want to see
how I am changed and how it impacts you as well, Dear Reader. There is a way to paddle out of this
mess. We need to find it together. I know that love is the hard surface we must
traverse. It seems that celebrating or
joking about another human’s death is not loving. Please stay with me as we explore this. The topics will be hard but your thoughts and
questions will always help.
Wishing you joy in the journey,
Aramis Thorn
Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every
writer who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a
homeowner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure
store.”
(͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Every human story is part of the great story that leads
to the Father getting everything back to Good.
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“Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in
mankind.”
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