In the Broadway play Grace (which is no longer running), toward the end Ed Asner’s character tells a story. As a child, he was forced by Nazi soldiers to inflict unthinkable abuse upon a young girl. Throughout his life he lived with a burden of guilt, although he had not chosen to commit the crime. Still, he remembered what had been done, and that memory affected his whole outlook. In any event, by accident late in life he bumps into the woman from his childhood. They sit over coffee and talk. Later he reports the encounter to two people he knows. He tells them: “She spoke to me the most beautiful words I ever heard. She took my hand, looked me in the eyes, and said, `I understand’.” Much of the meaning of the play’s title was captured in that story, in fact, in those two words. Read more of Dr. Michael Browns blog I Understand here: marblechurch.org/Blog/tabid/229/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/1546/I-Understand.aspx
Posted on: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 16:46:59 +0000
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