One Saturday morning I watched a segment of WWII in HD on the History Channel [July 30] in which the tragic events at Saipan's Marpi Point are recalled in images and soldiers’ letters. One thousand Japanese civilians killed themselves rather than be captured by the advancing American army, which they feared would rape and torture them.
The images were graphic and my throat was thick with suppressed tears. My daughter Dee Dee had made me an "ice cream cone" out of Legos and asked me to pretend to eat it. I looked at her, and looked at the TV.
Back and forth, back and forth.
What confluence of events or forces or minds places our consciences in these bodies at this time, and not those at that time, casting themselves off cliffs?
Started: 2012-06-30
Your question: What confluence of events or forces or minds places our consciences in these bodies at this time, and not those at that time, casting themselves off cliffs?
ReplyDeleteTruly (and reverently) only God Knows.
Thanks for the comment; I agree. I was inverting the epic question asked by Job - why them and not me? We ask this all the time when others suffer misfortune and we don't, or why they excel and we don't.
ReplyDeleteThe only answer we have in this lifetime is the one you gave, and the one God gave Job
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