All In A Days Grace

My planner has a quote at the top of each month.  As we head into the final two weeks of April, I realized I never even took a moment to read the quote. That is what kind of month it has been. Moving from one day to the next focusing on the tasks at hand. I finally noticed the quote this morning as I began to buzz through my day. “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”-Soren kierkergaard Kierkergaard was a Danish philosopher, poet, and theologian. If you ever took a psychology class you would remember him for his thoughts on existentialism. The topic that explored the human individual's struggle to lead an authentic life, despite the apparent absurdity or incomprehensibility of existence. I thought about that for a moment. Without faith how could you make sense of it all? How could you deal with the incomprehensibility of existence without knowing God? How could you live a life with no other purpose than to merely “exist” for the sake of existing? ...