![]() ![]() ![]() Greek writers from Homer to Sophocles attribute such events to gods and goddesses, destiny and fate-elements as capricious and indifferent to human welfare as the “forces of nature” (which is our term for these forces). I was reflecting, too, on the various ways that people from Greek, Jewish, and Christian traditions deal with misfortune and loss. During the following years I began to reflect on the ways that various religious traditions give shape to the invisible world, and how our imaginative perceptions of what is invisible relate to the ways we respond to the people around us, to events, and to the natural world. In 1988, when my husband of twenty years died in a hiking accident, I became aware that, like many people who grieve, I was living in the presence of an invisible being-living, that is, with a vivid sense of someone who had died. ![]()
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