There was no visible beauty in that moment. No lovely sight or magnificent vista. Not as you might think it should be. There was a heaviness, a snapshot, an uncertain, unreasonable reasonable pain. Shadow on rocks, gasps of torment, humours without humour. Dark and light co-existent, hope intertwined within hopelessness, powers holding the power in place, for a time. This most fundamental belief of my life is a paradox and a tension and there are many who claim it for themselves. Our beliefs form the energising factor for our actions. The foundation of my ethics therefore dictates a willingness to live with tensions, contrasts and apparent contradictions. The sooner we embrace these paradoxes the sooner we'll live well with others whose lives we don't yet understand, including ourselves. Learn to sit well with the questions. |
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AuthorStuart McDonald is a husband, father and exercise physiologist. And a lover of words, stories, music and healing. Archives
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