RESPONDING TO SUFFERING
Martin Gray, survivor of the Warsaw ghetto and the holocaust writes in his book For Those I Loved that after the holocaust, he rebuilt his life, became successful, married, and raised a family. Life seemed good. Then one day, his wife and children were killed when a forest fire ravaged their home in the south of France. Gray was distraught, pushed almost to the breaking point by this new tragedy. People urged him to demand an inquiry as to the cause of the fire. Instead, he put his resources into a movement to protect nature from future fires. He explained that an inquiry would focus on the past, on issues of pain, sorrow and blame. He wanted to focus on the future. An inquiry would set him against other people, seeking to find a villain, accusing other people of being responsible for his misery, all of which only makes a lonely person lonelier. Life has to be for something, not just…
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