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The Mental States of Fierce Love and Larger Pain
National Catholic Reporter, Dec 29, 2006 by Frank B. Ford
You must have great faith to perform small acts. From your cold room, alongside those of your sisters and brothers, you go forth to spend hours with bureaucrats, helping there by a gravely poor man get a tankful of oil. All set till the next one. You lose your faith after much of this and keep on through reflex. Or lose and deepen your faith at once. No use speaking of all this human quanta to others, and your coreligionists just know. There are days to hate God and yourself, lashing both, despising, too, the coy impotence of many served. But not the work. God's work and if He doesn't like it He can go ... Your mother and father are quizzically proud but would prefer a baby grand daughter to dress in softest pinks and carry about the linear development.
--Frank B. Ford
Cocoa Beach, Fla.
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