In the West I would undoubtedly have been a ‘writer of dark things’, the kind that sounds the horn of pessimism, predicts the end of Europe, the senselessness of human endeavour and of the whole evolution of our species. Here, in this intellectual and economic wreckage, I blow the trumpet of morality and the meaningfulness of our existence.
[Zygmunt Mycielski]
Today, from “Gestures Toward a Theology of Sleep,” this thought on how the absence of insomnia is Lutheran:
“4. To use what seems like it must be a well-worn metaphor: one cannot force oneself to sleep, but can only put oneself in a posture of receiving the gift of sleep. So it is with salvation. Sleep is thus a deeply Lutheran activity.”