Comments on: Kierkegaard: Works of Love http://heissufficient.com/2008/08/26/kierkegaard-works-of-love/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=kierkegaard-works-of-love A personal walk in a wilderness of words Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:07:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: David Ker http://heissufficient.com/2008/08/26/kierkegaard-works-of-love/#comment-3168 David Ker Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:24:22 +0000 http://heissufficient.net/?p=895#comment-3168 Sorry to hear about this. Kevin Sam's quote meant something to me as well. Sorry to hear about this. Kevin Sam’s quote meant something to me as well.

]]> By: ElShaddai Edwards http://heissufficient.com/2008/08/26/kierkegaard-works-of-love/#comment-3167 ElShaddai Edwards Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:44:14 +0000 http://heissufficient.net/?p=895#comment-3167 <strong>Esteban </strong>- thank you, I've heard lots about SK, but never read his work. I am looking forward to it.<br /><br /><strong>Kevin </strong>- thank you for the complete quote and for your sympathy - I really do appreciate it. <br /><br /><strong>Greg </strong>- I can't fathom the death of a baby. I just can't. "Too young" in this case is my wife's brother's wife, a handful or two years older than me, but she'll leave two boys less than 10 years old. She's been given no more than a month or two to live... I lost my mom to cancer in 1995, which softens the blow somewhat having been through it, but it still tears you apart. Esteban - thank you, I’ve heard lots about SK, but never read his work. I am looking forward to it.

Kevin - thank you for the complete quote and for your sympathy – I really do appreciate it.

Greg - I can’t fathom the death of a baby. I just can’t. “Too young” in this case is my wife’s brother’s wife, a handful or two years older than me, but she’ll leave two boys less than 10 years old. She’s been given no more than a month or two to live… I lost my mom to cancer in 1995, which softens the blow somewhat having been through it, but it still tears you apart.

]]> By: Greg http://heissufficient.com/2008/08/26/kierkegaard-works-of-love/#comment-3165 Greg Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:59:50 +0000 http://heissufficient.net/?p=895#comment-3165 Man, death to those who are too young is a terrible thing.  Friends at our church just recently lost their 16 month old.  I felt like I couldn't escape the weight of the fall- never really realized the grace that God gives in relief from that idea. I hope that Kierkegaard can help. Man, death to those who are too young is a terrible thing.  Friends at our church just recently lost their 16 month old.  I felt like I couldn’t escape the weight of the fall- never really realized the grace that God gives in relief from that idea. I hope that Kierkegaard can help.

]]> By: Kevin Sam http://heissufficient.com/2008/08/26/kierkegaard-works-of-love/#comment-3157 Kevin Sam Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:16:25 +0000 http://heissufficient.net/?p=895#comment-3157 ES, my sympathies for family's time of difficulty and grief are with you. SK said:"The work of love in recollecting one who is dead is thus a work of the most unselfish, the freest, the most faithful love.  Therefore, go out and practice it; recollect the one who is dead and just in this way learn to love the living unselfishly, freely, faithfully.... Recollect the one who is dead; then in addition to the blessing that is inseparable from this work of love you will also have the best guidance for rightly understanding life: that it is our duty to love the people we do not see but also those we do see." (SK, Works of Love, ed. Hong, 358). ES, my sympathies for family’s time of difficulty and grief are with you. SK said:”The work of love in recollecting one who is dead is thus a work of the most unselfish, the freest, the most faithful love.  Therefore, go out and practice it; recollect the one who is dead and just in this way learn to love the living unselfishly, freely, faithfully…. Recollect the one who is dead; then in addition to the blessing that is inseparable from this work of love you will also have the best guidance for rightly understanding life: that it is our duty to love the people we do not see but also those we do see.” (SK, Works of Love, ed. Hong, 358).

]]> By: Esteban Vázquez http://heissufficient.com/2008/08/26/kierkegaard-works-of-love/#comment-3155 Esteban Vázquez Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:24:57 +0000 http://heissufficient.net/?p=895#comment-3155 Once upon a time, when I was still able to do such things on account of the powers of my earliest youth, I taught myself enough Danish to slowly follow along the text of Kierkegaard's works with the aid of a dictionary and a grammar. I'm afraid that a decade later I have forgotten most of it, but Kierkegaard remains an enormously significant influence in my intellectual (and indeed, spiritual) development. I truly hope that you will enjoy visiting with SK, and that you will find the experience to be transformative. Once upon a time, when I was still able to do such things on account of the powers of my earliest youth, I taught myself enough Danish to slowly follow along the text of Kierkegaard’s works with the aid of a dictionary and a grammar. I’m afraid that a decade later I have forgotten most of it, but Kierkegaard remains an enormously significant influence in my intellectual (and indeed, spiritual) development. I truly hope that you will enjoy visiting with SK, and that you will find the experience to be transformative.

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