Nov 13– From The Confessions of Saint Augustine translated by E. B. Pusey (~400)
Summary: Sometimes you just want to wallow. But you have to be careful not to let it turn into bitterness.
Commentary: There's a lot of sadness in the world today. Two of my friends are in some stage or another for divorce. A good chunk of the country is mourning the election. Gaza. Ukraine. The million and one smaller sadnesses that seem to never go away.
As I've said however many times, I'm generally not a fan of most of the super Christian authors in T5FSOB, who tend to fall into the "HUMANITY IS LITERAL SHIT!" track over and over again. Augustine quite never gets there (fortunately) and the front half of this is a beautiful contemplation on dealing with sorrow and how we deal with it in other people (and how other people deal with us). He makes his way back to Christian navel gazing by the end.
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