March 26, 2012
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He gave every moment
The idea of sacrifice makes sense because the idea of investment doesn’t.
I have wondered if I could sacrifice for someone, if anyone could ever sacrifice for anyone. Because a lot of the time when it seems like you are supposedly sacrificing something, you actually end up getting something back. And if you get a return, it’s not really a sacrifice is it?
But when you think about how life is a very short thing, and how you don’t know when yours will suddenly be up, you realize that it is a very deep thing to serve another person’s interests, instead of doing something that will benefit yourself. In a sacrificial action you take your life, which is of a finite value, and give it away to someone else. You cannot earn your life back later; the part you used is gone, never to return.
There is an infinite quality of irreplaceability to the finite. Once you realize how fast the glass of existence is breaking, you see how sacrificial it is to reflect it at someone else.
Comments (3)
I’m used to thinking of time as something that will be fulfilled in eternity. This means that even though our time is finite its value is infinite.
Sacrifice is simply the word for choosing the most important thing.
Great meditation, bringing to mind yesterday’s gospel about the grain of wheat that has to fall to the ground and die to bear fruit…
I love your posts.