Monday, September 21, 2009

Grace is Sufficient


The greatest temptations I face are self-pity, despair, the panic that robs the good of intellect. Your grace saves me from them, O Lord. It is sufficient.

Today grace taught me right before my chemotherapy treatment that I loathe it because I, too, was raised in a culture that disdains the body in a kind of Gnostic angelism. Walker Percy astutely observed that those caught in this plight make occasional attempts at re-entry by means of bestialism. I thank you, Lord, that you excised that temptation at my Confirmation.

Chemotherapy is a blessed reminder that the body
is, is good - imago dei, and that I am no gnostic. Let the chemo always remind me, O Lord.

1 comment:

Gil Bailie said...

My old friend, you are in my prayers daily.