“There’s a hole in the world now…A center, like no other, of memory and hope and knowledge and affection which once inhabited this earth is gone. Only a gap remains. A perspective in this world unique in this world which once moved about in this world has been rubbed out…There’s nobody who saw just what he saw, knows what he knew, remembers what he remembered, loves what he loved…Questions I have can never now get answers. The world is emptier.” _Nicholas Wolterstorff, Lament for a Son
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I lifted this quote from John Eldredge’s book, Desire.
Wolterstorff penned these words after he lost his son in a mountaineering accident.
Yesterday one of my roommate’s in college, Marcus Lamb died of Covid-19. I don’t know why, our lives had greatly diverged over the years and we had little in common, but his passing (age 64) has troubled me deeply. For sure, “Questions I have can never now get answers. The world is emptier.”
Entry from my December 1, 2021 journal.
The ONE THING 