APRIL 15
Suffering breaks our world. Like a tree struck by light-
ning—splintered, shaken, denuded—our world is broken
by suffering, and we will never be the same again. What will
become of us is a mystery.
—NATHAN KOLLARAny major event in our lives affects every other aspect of
our lives—as a stone tossed into a stream creates ripples
that extend all the way to the shore.
And often we don’t know what’s “out there,” or how
we’re going to be affected by this change somewhere down
the line.
Under the calmest of circumstances there is no planning
that can anticipate every contingency. But when our lives
are all but shattered by grief, it is often a mystery how we’re
going to get through the next-twenty-four hours, let alone
make the necessary adaptations for the next five years, or
ten, or twenty.
There is no hurry. And no hurrying. The future will un-
fold, whether we’re ready or not. We will make what impact
we can on that future. Much of it will be out of our hands—a
mystery, then as now.
Part of the adventure of my life is—I don’t know all that I may
become.