I was reading, with Matins this morning, an excerpt from the treatise On the Six Days of Creation by Ambrose, Bishop of Milan. In it, he is wondering where evil comes from. He concludes “It is a pervasion of mind and spirit, swerving from the way of true virtue, which frequently overtakes the unwary. … The enemy is within us. (more…)
March 23, 2011
Complacency? Evil? Sin?
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December 11, 2008
Feeling Like Job
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My daughter’s friend Aimee has undergone multiple eye surgeries to try to save her vision. She has diabetes (as do I) and loss of sight is one of the complications that can result. Aimee is about twenty five, and was married earlier this year. And I found out today that a blood vessel in her good eye ruptured. I hear she’s looking at surgery the day after Christmas. And I hear she’s feeling like Job. Which I understand.