A few years ago my friends Caroline, Trent, and I started somewhat ironically sending each other Christian rock tracks that we half-liked. None of us were practicing Christians but we were prayerful people with a taste for a hooky melody and a heart-opening lyric.
This is such a wonderful piece. I deeply resonate with so much of it, but especially:
“I have zero evidence for what I’m about to say. It’s just a feeling. And the feeling is this: That at some point – maybe in this life, or at the moment of death, and maybe even post-death – things will make some kind of sense.”
I hope for something like this (though the degree to which I’m convinced of it waxes and wanes depending on the day/my mood/whether I've eaten recently). What I know for sure is that lucid, honest writing like yours offers us moments of cosmic clarity; we might not see the whole picture, but important segments are illuminated. Thanks for creating a little bit of sense out of the great and senseless chaos.
This is such a wonderful piece. I deeply resonate with so much of it, but especially:
“I have zero evidence for what I’m about to say. It’s just a feeling. And the feeling is this: That at some point – maybe in this life, or at the moment of death, and maybe even post-death – things will make some kind of sense.”
I hope for something like this (though the degree to which I’m convinced of it waxes and wanes depending on the day/my mood/whether I've eaten recently). What I know for sure is that lucid, honest writing like yours offers us moments of cosmic clarity; we might not see the whole picture, but important segments are illuminated. Thanks for creating a little bit of sense out of the great and senseless chaos.