Meet my new roommate for the next two weeks, Klara! She's a very sweet 7 year old kitty with stage 4 kidney failure. I'm staying with her while her folks (theatre pals) are out of town. She lives like most other kitties but has a special diet and needs subq fluid once every few days. Her and I seem to be off to a good start. I'm staying at her place - a nice 2 bedroom apartment on the 35th floor of a downtown building.
I spent some of this weekend thinking about the word redemption and what it means. Not necessarily the religious context of it, but the taking a wrong and making it right idea. I think this stuck with me because I watched a few movies over the weekend in which the themes were about making things right and using your pain to help others. Like everyone I have had some painful things happen to me and have struggled with the anger and despair that often accompanies being hurt. In the book The Shack the author calls his main character's pain (due to the murder of his youngest daughter) "the Great Sadness." This makes sense to me because some of the bad things that can happen in life seem so consuming that they haunt you no matter how hard you try to ignore them. I am often reminded of this fact when something new in my life causes me pain (a conflict. a death, etc). All of a sudden the floodgate of old pain re-opens and I find myself back at the beginning of my pain...
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