“If life on earth is not a road to heaven,” someone has said, “then it is a treadmill, a merry-go-round minus the merry.” It is like an old “Mutt and Jeff” comic strip …
It is late at night and Jeff is standing next to a pile of stones in the center of a highway. On the stones there is a lantern. Mutt comes along and asks,
“Hey Jeff, did you put the lantern there?” “Yes, Mutt.”
“Why did you put the lantern there?”
“To warn cars away so they won’t crack up on this pile of stones.”
“Good thinking, Jeff. But did you put the stones there too?” “Yes, Mutt.”
“What for?”
“Why, to hold the lantern up, of course.”
For better or for worse, every ingredient in our lives can be seen to be fulfilling some purpose: the stones are there to hold up the lantern; the lantern is there to light up the stones. But why is the whole thing…
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