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Kevin Basil

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Long Division

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There is something quite melancholy in the closing lines of The Lord of the Rings. I deeply resonate with Jim’s post about being divided. Fr. Dennis used a scene from The Fellowship of the Ring in his homily Sunday. Sometimes I wish, along with Frodo, that this struggle had never come to me. “I wish none of this had happened.” Gandalf replies, “So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”

But I always come back to this: If none of this had happened, a great deal of many positive things would not have happened, too. Many friends are made in the worst of times, just as the trilogy shows us. I think this is why I am so divided; I cannot turn my back on the good, and I find it nearly impossible to discern that division between light and dark in my own heart.

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