"To look into the eyes of a vulnerable person is to see yourself as you might be. It’s a more harrowing experience than one might readily admit. There is a version of yourself made powerless, status diminished, reliant upon the goodwill of others."
"One response is denial: If you refuse to believe you could ever be in such a position—perhaps by blaming the frail for their frailty or ascribing their vulnerability to moral failure—You come away disgusted with the weak, but content in the certainty you aren’t among them."
The alternative? To welcome the weak, to know that we are already weak (even if we find it easier to pass). For each of us can echo Paul, "For I do not that good which I will; but the evil which I hate, that I do."
There is no more dangerous weakness.
There is no more dangerous weakness.
Jean Vanier (and the doc on the L'Arche communities, @SummerIntForest) tells us the truth.
"Following Vanier as an old man, the film allows Vanier’s body to offer the witness of his words and actions: We are all fragile, and we must love one another."
bit.ly/2q2qwwJ
"Following Vanier as an old man, the film allows Vanier’s body to offer the witness of his words and actions: We are all fragile, and we must love one another."
bit.ly/2q2qwwJ
