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The kind of beauty that sinks ships and ruins lives,
Laws, religion, civil society—they were just veneers, constructions put in place by the powerful to tame us animals, impose control. Over so many years we’d forgotten, treating the constructions like they were part of nature. But nature doesn’t know good or evil. All nature knows is survival.
“I’m not a good man, Ruth.” “I love you anyway.”
Not a sinner or a saint—just another creature.
The Bible talks endlessly about parental sacrifice: God sacrificing Jesus, Abraham sacrificing Isaac. Tests of love and devotion. But what about what children sacrifice? What about the courage it takes to right our parents’ wrongs, course correct the mess they’ve left us?
