Russell Moore recorded an excellent podcast about the theme. I was so full of sleep, at that point where I abandoned the true way. In the middle of the journey of our life, I came to myself, in a dark wood, where the direct way was lost…. The opening of Dante’s The Divine Comedy illustrates the sense of lostness that can accompany this slog in the journey of life: What are the marks of this phase? Some weariness a sense of burden brought by the responsibilities we accumulate cynicism as we come to understand something of the ways of the world wounds caused by ill-intentioned people and by our own stupidity tension between the adult we want to become and the still-present adolescent impulses we find in ourselves diminished impetus, at least when compared to the youthful zest of one’s twenties. (I’m thinking of the challenges that can accompany us in our thirties and forties.) But, as someone who is starting to feel some of the pressures of this phase, I’m afraid I have for now only a few half-baked thoughts.īut let’s start. I’d love to write an article on the subject of middle age and its difficulties.
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