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On Loss, or Gain
Daniel Pearl was kidnapped, murdered and decapitated. Hearing of the grisly
proceedings, sympathy augments with the knowledge of a widow and an unborn
child. This child will never know its father; not in this world.
And the known world of Pearl collapsed the day of his death. The created
universe, so vast and full of secrets, removed itself from him as he was
removed from it. What a piece of work . . .
Every day thousands die and sensate existence ceases. Whether that sensation
included a barren mountain village in Afghanistan, rife with hunger and
fraught with the death of others, or a postmodern sally into undeveloped
lands from the United States . . . where, sinking from squalor to depravity,
life is extinguished in a grim backroom amongst an unremarkable collection
of
buildings.
Our beginnings do not know our ends, if ends are indeed so defined. Perhaps
the point at which the known universe collapses in upon itself is not
the
death of a sensing human life. Perhaps the still point in the center of
the
turning cosmic wheel is the very point from which one begins to view
creation as dependent upon a thing more wonderful than that which has
been
made. Perhaps Daniel Pearl’s end, intended for evil, removing him
from even
time, unveiled to him a most magnificent good.
I offer this thought to Mrs. Pearl and her unborn child.
James Clark
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(c) 2002 Millennium Relief & Development Services, vol. 2 no. 12
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