9.09.2003
Orson Scott Card continues on p. 312:
"It's easy to tell the truth," said Mother softly, "when you don't love anybody."
"Is that waht you think?" said Ela. "I think I know something, Mother. I think you can't possibly know the truth about somebody unless you love them....
Can we really tell the truth about someone without loving them? We may say true things about them, but to tell the truth is something altogether different. Gossip may be true things, but that doesn't mean it is the truth about someone.
Is this why Jesus says, "I am the way the truth and the life?" Does he know that the only we we can truly know the truth, not just about him, but about everything, is to love him first? And what of us? Does Jesus know us in truth because he loves us, because he loves everything true about us, even when we are too fearful to face it? What a concept to ponder.
"It's easy to tell the truth," said Mother softly, "when you don't love anybody."
"Is that waht you think?" said Ela. "I think I know something, Mother. I think you can't possibly know the truth about somebody unless you love them....
Can we really tell the truth about someone without loving them? We may say true things about them, but to tell the truth is something altogether different. Gossip may be true things, but that doesn't mean it is the truth about someone.
Is this why Jesus says, "I am the way the truth and the life?" Does he know that the only we we can truly know the truth, not just about him, but about everything, is to love him first? And what of us? Does Jesus know us in truth because he loves us, because he loves everything true about us, even when we are too fearful to face it? What a concept to ponder.
