A tribute to my friend, Brian Eric Jansen – Jack, When all is said and done – When the shock of your death, reminded us of our mortality, When all the eulogies and tributes fade … And the choral music in your honor fades … And the mourners walk from your grave … what shall we say about your passing? Are we filled with fear for our own death? I am reminded about the words about someone who said, we can only fear death if we have experienced death ourselves. Thus when our fear death subsides … what meaning shall we attached to your/our death? Is life about the vindication of religion about wishful thinking and the realization of the Oedipus complex? (Freud) Is life about the discovering of the meaning of our existence? (Frankl) Our is our existence about the pursuance about costly grace to realize the theological ideal of Luther’s of “by grace alone”? (Bonhoeffer) Or the sum total of them all? Someone said the (re)solution to our existence exists in our self-transcendence of the crisis of the meaninglessness (existential estrangement and alienation) – it is not merely the vindication our intrinsic weaknesses and anxieties! It is constituted in imparting change for the good of humankind – from the pauper to the king. For the execution of this change – noble, humble or great achievements – We placed ourselves on the alter of self-sacrifice – subjecting ourselves to critique, humiliation, Nevertheless, you will live in our memories which is greater than the inscriptions of tombstones!
Posted on: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 18:47:07 +0000
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