Monday, August 29, 2011

What kind of a Universe is this Anyway?

Excerpt from A Broken Heart Still Beats; after your child dies.  It is a collection of grief anthologies. This quote is by David Morrell who wrote Fireflies, a blend of fact and fantasy about the death of his 15 year old son Matthew from cancer.  Morrell is best know for creating the character Rambo.

When you lose a child, you search for some meaning, some justification, anything to ease your agony.  You think about God and whether he exists and what kind of God would allow something so heinous as Matthew's death.  You think about ultimates, about the point of existence and whether there's an afterlife and what it would be like.  Would Matthew be waiting when his father, mother, and sister died?  Would he be the same?

You question everything.  You grasp at anything.  To make sense of what seems to have no sense.  To find meaning in what you despair might be the ultimate meaning: nothingness.  You seek in all places, all cultures.  You search in all philosophies and faiths. 

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