To Be or Not To Be?

A. Unabashed Pacifist:

Did you hear? No war in Scandinavia or Costa Rica or Switzerland. What’s up with that?!

B. Unabashed Christian:

Holy One,

Where did we get the idea that we need to seek you?
It now seems to me we need but recognize your presence.
We do not so much need to seek as to stop trying to hide from you.
Amen

C. Un-quoting Jesus:

“How will your healing affect my bottom line? That’s what I want to know.”

[Some physician He was. He never said this.]

D. Blog: To Be Or Not To Be?

Dying sometimes looks easy, as when we are tempted to ask: “To be or not to be?” Dying ends the difficulty of living.

When it’s summertime and living is easy, however, dying looks difficult, like something to avoid as long as possible.

We escape/avoid neither dying nor living. Living leads to dying; that’s an absolute physical reality. Death leads to new life, not necessarily our own; that’s also an absolute physical truth, while an absolute affirmation of spiritual truth, too.

Be or not be? The answer is: both.