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William Butler Yeats on Tragedy & Joy

February 28th, 2008 · No Comments · Honest Reflections, Spiritual Journey, Uncategorized

William Butler Yeats, Irish poet and Nobel Prize for Literature winner, captures my aging sense of the flow of life in this fallen and broken world:

“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him during temporary periods of joy.”

This life is full of thorns and thistles. God didn’t make the world that way . . . we brought it on ourselves when we decided that we were much smarter than we turned out to be.

I relearn the truth of our sad condition in many ways and on many days. Today I weep once more for hurts, damage done in the name of independence. I weep over the wounds that friends, colleagues . . . and I carry through this life. It is an unfolding tragedy waiting for Divine redemption. And the road is mercilessly long. I pray I am able to show a fraction of the grace I receive.

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