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We cannot sugar coat it.
Life on earth is dreadful for many people. It is more of a terror than a
blessing to most people on earth, no matter what the postcards tell us. The
material improvements, which are not universal or as widespread as the cliff
notes on prosperity and capitalism will have us believe, do not speak to the
dearth of the soul and the meaning and purpose we must all find at the other
end.
We know the human heart
is hungry like a hunter. We know that even when that physical hunger is satiated,
other and more complex hungers take its place. The greedy human belly pales in
comparison to the greedy human heart. The idea that both poor and rich can
suffer the same maladies, encounter the same crisis of the soul and end up,
even with very diverse problems in colour, at the same ledge, is seen in
everyday life. We believe light is the solution. We are asked to feed the
hungry, to look for justice in the world, to fight inequality and decay and to
not buy the approach that it all means nothing in the end. The darkness now
also pales in comparison to the light and joy to come.
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