Is There A Point?

Ecclesiastical Echoing

We — many of us, anyway — want there to be a point to all this.

All the loss, grief, trauma, and pain that we experience in life… it all has to be for something… right?

The confounding thing I’ve found is… yes and no.

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The point is: growth, learning, experience, gratitude…honing ourselves to that point that we asymptoticly approach, but never quite reach, yet still disallow ourselves from despairing at the Sisyphean aspects of our lives.

When you can let the boulder roll down without cursing the gods, it gets easier and easier to push it back up the mountain — appreciate the exercise instead of dreading the task itself.

I’ve written previously about the Christian tendency towards dominating and controlling aspects of this life which are beyond control, despite a purported belief in a perfected existence of unimpeded bliss waiting beyond the veil of mortality.