LOVE IS LONGSUFFERING
As an illustration of what it means that “love is longsuffering,” Sandy Brown offers the final paragraph of Frederick Buechner’s novel, Lion Country, Antonio Parr, the protagonist and the one whose words make up the narrative of the book, had experienced in the action of the novel the long, slow, and painful death of his twin sister, Miriam. The book explores the inability of others to deal with Miriam’s pain and death, and it gives us insight into why Antonio was able to deal with it. This paragraph explains it best: “When Miriam’s bones were breaking, for instance, if I could have pushed a button that would have stopped not her pain but the pain of her pain in me, I would not have pushed the button because, to put it quite simply, my pain was because I loved her, and to have wished my pain away would have been somehow to wish my love away as well. And at my…
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