Calamity
Seeds XII, 10
Seed: Calamity
I’m deep in the study of the Tao Te Ching, the classic, if brief, tome of Taoism. Reading all sorts of translations, this line from Chapter 58 hit me upside the head:
Calamities are what blessings depend on.
So, of course, my crazy brain leapt to Calamity Jane, that Wild West woman, known for her scouting and her shooting abilities.
The OED defines calamity as the state or condition of grievous affliction or adversity; deep distress, trouble, or misery, arising from some adverse circumstance or event. Apparently, she created the name for herself! She wanted it known through the territories that she was a calamity waiting to happen.
How is it possible for calamities to be what blessings depend on? I think the purpose of calamity is contrast. Think of a calamity from your own life, not a recent one, but one from the past. Can you see how blessings arose from it? Think on it for a bit.
Be passion,
Susan Corso
Dr. Susan Corso
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March 5, 2010 7:52 am
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