Re: The Good Husband
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 1:35 pm
How do you know what this man thought/pondered/studied all his life?Sue Hindmarsh wrote:In a documentary about the 1987 London Underground fire, a fireman tells how he was overcome by heat and smoke. Unable to move, he believes he is going to die. He accepts his fate knowing that he is leaving his wife well taken care of and the mortgage paid. He doesn’t die, and lives to tell his story.
Duly he will be considered by his ilk as a saint for being such a good husband - though not by me, I felt like puking. How mediocre can you get! He’d obviously given up on life a long time ago. If his only thought at death was about having paid off the mortgage, then he might as well never have been born.
You are judging him by what he said & did during those last few moments.
If you're on your deathbed, do you start a philosophical discussion ?
His spirituality was expressed by the love and care he had for others.
You are spiritually dead without selfless compassion.