You should definitely read Josh Andrews commencement address posted here on the Collegians blog: This is test of our education: If you will look upon the reality of separation and suffering and reject it as meaningless, embracing once again the possibility of love. Will you look upon what we had, know that it was worthwhile, and proceed once more? Here, the liberal arts becomes more than teaching you how to think. It begins to instruct you on what to love, and how you ought to love it. Your education will determine the things for which you sacrifice, even knowing that they are finite, and moving forward nonetheless. As Marilyn Robinson reminds us, There is no justice in love, no proportion in it, and there need not be, because in any specific instance, it is only a glimpse, or parable, of an embracing, incomprehensible reality. It makes no sense at all, because it is the eternal breaking in on the temporal. So how could it subordinate itself to cause or consequence? So this is the choice that we have: To seek comfort in distance, or allow ourselves to be vulnerable, to offer ourselves to be hurt by that for which we care. For though the movement of life demands departure, we may choose to love in the meantime.
Posted on: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 02:40:21 +0000
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