Monday, 6 October 2025
Thomas meets Julian
Thomas meets with Julian
- Hello again Julian, it is good to be here.
- You too Thomas…. Always good to see you…. What bring you here today?
- The usual….. Although that could be seen as diminishing the significance of what troubles me and its impact on me.
- Go on.
- Well, I have several dear friends with significant and life changing health issues. It seems mean and unfair. They are all good decent people who deserve better.
- Hmm.
- Please don’t tell me it’s God’s will that they should suffer.
- I wont and I don’t believe that is the case…. However-
- However?
- Yes, however…. However, we might understand this suffering, what it does invite is love and tenderness from those around them…. And dare I say it?.... Yes, I do, love and tenderness towards themselves.
- Wow!
- Yes, wow… Suffering is finite. It ends so yhe important point is the journeying and what we can learn from it.
- Oh no Julian that is tough, really tough. And I can only accept that from you as I know you have suffered.
- True but this is not about me.
- OK and it is not about me or rather not just about me… Even though it can be heart breaking to witness my friends’ suffering.
Julian nods.
- Rather than being theologically clever about this – Heaven forbid.
- Thomas smiles – Heaven forbid.
- How about how a pearl is formed when an oyster swallows some grit. So maybe pearls develop over time inside us as we suffer.
- Hmmm, I quite like that.
- Me too.
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