The L'Arche Canada Foundation of Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada Daily Thought by Jean Vanier for Saturday, 16 January 2016 "Embracing reality"
As people grow older and as their strength diminishes they often become more accepting of their lives and of reality. However, old age can make some people bitter and desperate; they become angry with life, with themselves, with their weakness and with the awareness of the nearness of death and the end of their lives.
It takes time to learn to embrace reality, to enter into a 'bonding' with reality; a bonding with our own weakness and poverty.[Jean Vanier, Befriending the Stranger, page 114]
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