Perhaps...
04/30/2010
Flannery O'Connor, from Inside Catholic's Flannery Friday:
I guess what you say about suffering being a shared experience with Christ is true, but then it should also be true of every experience that is not sinful. I meant that say, joy, may be a redemptive experience itself and not just the fruit of one. Perhaps however joy is the outgrowth of suffering in a special way.
Where's the perhaps--that joy can be redemptive--that it's the outgrowth of suffering in a special way.
AMDG
Posted by: Janet | 04/30/2010 at 12:04 PM
Should have been a question mark there.
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AMDG
Posted by: Janet | 04/30/2010 at 12:04 PM
I guess if there's a "perhaps" it's whether it has to be that way. I mean, can you get there without going through suffering? In small and short-lived ways, I guess so.
Posted by: Mac | 04/30/2010 at 12:27 PM
Oh, now I see that the "perhaps" is hers and not yours. Busy day--more unobservant that usual. I'm thinking that she doesn't mean that joy is ONLY the outgrowth of suffering, but that when it is, it's special--before that word had so much negative baggage.
AMDG
Posted by: Janet | 04/30/2010 at 01:08 PM
Yeah, that's more or less what I thought she meant, too.
Posted by: Mac | 04/30/2010 at 01:22 PM