Small food for thought.

[kiya]

pariyal wrote in _found_objects_:

I’m coming to feel that any human interaction without love is sinful; perhaps that’s the lesson I have to learn from the life of St. Mary of Egypt.

My aunt Chris gave teinedreugan and myself an icon of St. Mary of Egypt as a wedding present.

I think I will add remembering that thought to my Keys, and attach it to noticing that icon.

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[davidgoldfarb.livejournal.com]

I go to my local farmers' market. I see some organically-grown strawberries. The farmer sets a price, I decide it's fair, I pay it, I leave.

There's nothing in that strawberry-buying that one could call "love" without stretching the word beyond recognition; but my understanding of sin does not stretch to regarding it as sinful. (Not that I think of sin as a terribly useful concept.)