Its a new day! (: Today is also the day of my Grandfather's funeral. Sigh. We're sending him off in a while. Pretty soon, in fact.
HL815
Aristotle said that a play's or art's true purpose is 'Catharsis' - the purging of the soul. Although I never really knew Aristotle, I find this so intimately true. All the World's stage and we're merely actor and actresses in it. Each event God has structured in His perfect manuscript is an event meant to develop the character. As such he introduces events that causes us, ironically also the audience, step back and take a look at the whole picture (Alienation and imitative resemblance). In the process, we learn and grow. (What doesn't kill us, helps us to become better people right?) In this we recognise that our world, apart from the love of Christ, is naught but a simulcrum we've constructed on stereotypes and biases. There is no true love anymore... save the stereotypes of love we perceive to be and the FORM of love held in God's hands. A person's character is what the media makes it out to be. So to break through the Simulcra, God lets these bad things happen to us. To pull us back to Him. Although its painful, it purifies our soul and purges the evil in our thoughts - that our form is laid bare at the very moment. And we may approach the form of all Love. And be immersed in it. Voila (: Here life resembles the doll house . But in God, we have found our true Identity. Though crushed, we are made whole.
There (: I just summarised all the themes for HL815 into my experience this few days. But the bottomline is? I've learnt my lesson this round... and because of this trial, through my treasured Lord, I'm now stronger (:
But I couldn't have done it without such awesome friends who know how to cheer me up (: Thank you all for your words of encouragement and for making each day on this wretch earth more and more bearable to live in.
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