“Anything with life in it can flourish only if it abandons
itself to what lies beyond it, eventually to be lost as a separate being, though continuing to live on in relation to
others.” (Spirit of the Disciplines, 56)
We all like to think of ourselves as independent persons.
We have our own thoughts, opinions, likes, and dislikes. Human life is very
complicated. For whatever reason we have been given the great honor and glory
to be at the top of everything created. Human life has so much ability to do
good or to do evil. But what Willard so amazingly points out is that the only
way life can flourish is if the individual gives way to the total. Life is give
and take. Nobody’s life exists in a vacuum. We give and we take. The questions
are, what am I giving my life to and what am I taking for my life?
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