Sacrifice: To Make Sacred

I have been gripped all day by the thought of SACRIFICE. I grew sick of the word early in my life and it was enough to drive me out of the common jargon of most churches. But when I learned that the word meant TO MAKE SACRED, I got another perspective on it. I slowly saw that it was an adequate description of the meaning of a human life. To make the evolution of an experience to the level of the sacred -- well, who needs more definition or explanation? It makes the only sense I have ever found of this enigmatic thing we call LIFE.

I recall the deaths of people close to me earlier in my life; I had no adequate sense of meaning for myself in the experience and I went away vacant and sorely wounded. Now I have a profoundly deep meaning of such experiences, and, though they still hurt, they do not torture me as meaningless any more.

On the contrary, I know I must experience the loss of everything that seems meaningful now. I am not strong enough to believe this deeply, but there is a deep understanding of it even if I play wailing infant on the surface. I can see I have not learned the basic lesson of life if I can't accept the next SACRIFICE that faces me.

What a strange statement to make!!!!! Man lives to be the vehicle of the great transformation of life from ego-centric to THEOCENTRIC. Yes, but when will I be strong enough actually to live the next such event?