Hemingway and Holiday Love
Posted by Mark Shaw on December 21, 2008
Hemingwaywantabes:
During this holiday season, let us join together in joy and love for all of those who touch our lives.I’m sure Hemingway would agree.
As Thomas Merton wrote in No Man Is An Island:
“We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others. What do I mean by loving ourselves properly? I mean, first of all, desiring to live, accepting life as a very great gift and a great good, not because of what it gives us, but because of what it enables us to give to others.”
When you celebrate this holiday season, be sure to count the blessings and to truly enjoy the gift of life by helping others.
Blessings and good wishes,
Mark Shaw
