*SIGH* Relief

This weekend, for the first time since 2007 (July) I had no homework (well I need to work on my qualitative project but I couldn't do it without finishing interview) and could simply read for my pleasure.

Ray and I went camping and it was wonderful. QUIET. SLOW-PACED. It was an introvert's paradise-which I was in DESPERATE need of as my life of late knows no alone time. :(

So, I spent my time recharging my batteries and I read (or finished) two books:

1. Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning

2. Gustav Niebuhr's Beyond Tolerance

It is interesting to read these two, together. I am going to pursue a followership path

for my dissertation and so to think about The Holocaust and followers in respect to

faith (from Islam, Buddism, Christianity) is exciting.

At one point back in Waco, in a small group, small group co-leader Frank wondered

aloud if he and his wife would have a special realtionship even in Heaven. Viktor Frankl

actually spoke to this with:

"Love goes far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present or not, he is still alive at all-ceases somehow to be of importance"(p. 60).

I think Dr. Frankl speaks to so many people's wondering-just like Frank-will we still have a special relationship with our beloved in Heaven? Dr. Frankl believes YES, we will and so do I.