More wisdom from the late Richard John Neuhaus:
"Of course this business about losing our lives in order to find our lives goes very much against the grain. On second thought, maybe not. Maybe we have grown so accustomed to living against the grain of our humanity that we have confused ourselves about which way the grain runs. Maybe, if we follow the true grain of our humanity, it leads to our surrendering our all to the Other. Recall again St. Augustine's "You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you." Recall those old catechisms, both Protestant and Catholic, that asked the question, "Why did God make me?" Answer: "To know and love and serve him in this life, and to enjoy him forever in the next." Why did God make me? If we get the answer to that wrong, we get everything else wrong. Mary, following Christ, got that right. "
From "Death on a Friday Afternoon"
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