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Sundial Cloister

Per tempus, cum laetitia, amo. --Etna, 17th of November 1991 

Saturday, March 11, 2006

12:16 - Weak vessel.

Another reflection about Tobit. The very book that speaks of life and how the mystery of its source is renewed in every couple of spouses, is, in actual fact, full of references to the negation of life: death.
Here the episodes that I found (if you find more, please let me know):

1,18/21: Sennacherib killed a great number of Israelites
2,3: One of our nation has just been murdered
3,6: Be pleased to take your life from me (Tobit)
3,10: Very dramatic: a suicide attempt. Sarah intends to hang herself. She doesn't do it because this could cause the death of her father.
4,2: Tobit is convinced he will die, I don't think that he expects that God has listened to his prayers, it is more likely that he expects to be punished for what he asked.
6,4-3: The fish is killed
6,14: 7 husbands were killed by a demon
7,9: A sheep is killed.
8,19-20: Two oxen, 4 sheep are killed.

Clearly, you wonder whether you have the right to live, given that even today a great number of people die for various and non-understandable reasons.
My answer: it is not up to you to decide whether you have to live or die. You can only choose how to spend the love you are capable of, and accept the consequences, often bitter and unpleasant.


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