Sunday, June 27, 2021
Sunday Reflection: The Heart
For most people, if we think about our heart-- beating away, every day, every minute, with a motion and noise we can detect if we try-- it freaks us out. There is something deeply unsettling about the reliance we have on this thing at the center of our bodies.
The miracle isn't that they fail; it is that they almost always don't for our days here on earth. What a remarkable machine it is, like so many other parts of out bodies.
But they do fail in the end. One of the remarkable things I took from the Chauvin trial was Dr. Tobin's assertion that all deaths are really due to the heart stopping-- disease or injury just cause that outcome.
Life is, in the end, tenuous. We are designed that way. So it is imperative that this be a good day of life, with gratitude and perhaps a moment of joy.
