From Reid Buckley's "An American Family":
Like most Roman Catholics, I was born knowing the eschatology of tragedy and its ontological significance, which is redemption. This keeps one from taking oneself too seriously. This is the necessary perspective of a sense of humor, upon which salvation may depend. Only at the expense of his faith may a Christian wallow in grief.
This is the hard thing: to know simultaneously that one is infinitely precious to the Lord God and infinitely important in His economy of salvation (oh, what comfort there is in this mystery!), yet to know also that one is nothing-- nothing at all, not a speck more than a bubble in the frothing stream of existence..
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