Friday, July 25, 2008

Human Being/Human Doing

I am a human being, not a human doing. I have value because I exist, not because of what I do. We define ourselves by what we do. We also define ourselves by our relationships to other people. Chronic illness strips us of what we do. Chronic illness strips of who we were in relationships. In our nakedness we might just discover that we are human beings and that just being is just fine.

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