It's all about knowing. This is one answer to the question on my silly comic posted earlier. What is sinking in after the confusion of events this past month is this: what medicine knows, it knows well. This recognition is one solid and comforting answer to the meaning question. There is much that science and medicine does not know --- but what medicine knows, and this becomes visible when its practitioners work competently, it knows well. -- Doing a silly comic was part of the process of taking in the unexpected. For the first time I had the experience of laughing and crying, quite literally, at the same time.
There seems to be a sequence to the reovery process: first elation, a sense of awe, then utter gratefulness, then the realization that something serious has happened, then a sense of the silliness of it all, making fun of the unexpected, then the realization that training people to become responsible, competent, and humane individuals capable of doing their job well is what makes our educational efforts and our society valuable. Peculiarly clear too is the fact that all this took place within transcendence -- what Christian theologians like C. S. Lewis or Joseph Ratzinger or the prodigal C .E. M. Joad call the passion of Christ, or Christ's Torah, or the Sermon on the Mount, or moments of transport.
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