EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALL RIGHT JARED RAGLAND
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REMEMBER TOMORROW St arting point for the search: It no longer avails to st art with creatures and prove God. Yet it is impossible to rule God out. The only possible st arting point: the strange fact of one’s own invincible apathy–that if the proofs were proved and God presented himself, nothing would be changed. Here is the strangest fact of all. Abraham saw signs of God and believed. Now the only sign is that all the signs in the world make no difference.
What is the nature of the search? you ask. Really it is very simple, at least for a fellow like me; so simple it is easily overlooked. The search is what anyone would undert ake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. This morning, for example, I felt as if I had come to myself on a strange island. And what does such a cast away do? Why, he pokes around the neighborhood and he doesn’t miss a trick. To be aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
I watched her uneasily. “Not a bad life, you say. It would be the best of all possible lives.” She speaks in rapture–something like my aunt. My heart sinks. It is too late. She has already overt aken herself. “Don’t–worry about it.” “I won’t! I won’t” –as enraptured and extinguished in her soul, gone, as a character played by Eva Maria Saint. Leaning over, she hugs herself. “What’s the matter?” “Ooooh,” Kate groans, Kate herself now. “I’m so afraid.” “I know.” “What am I going to do?” “You mean right now?” “Yes.” “We’ll go to my car. Then we’ll drive down to the French Market and get some coffee. Then we’ll go home.” “Is everything going to be all right?” “Yes.” “Tell me. Say it.” “Everything is going to be all right.”
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