Comments on: The Root of All Good Is Love http://wigglebrick.com/the-root-of-all-good-is-love/ Top Secret. Confidential. Hush Hush. Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:56:07 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Prof. Earnest Thornberry http://wigglebrick.com/the-root-of-all-good-is-love/comment-page-1/#comment-17 Prof. Earnest Thornberry Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:07:10 +0000 http://www.wigglebrick.com/the-root-of-all-good-is-love/#comment-17 Dear Abby, you are too kind. I am merely one more prodigal son who sees the world through his newfound Catholic faith. If you like reading this "Devil's Advocate" style, check out the original and best CS Lewis's <i>Screwtape Letters</i> as well as Peter Kreeft's <i>Snakebite Letters</i>. Thank you for sharing your beautiful story, I'm sure other readers will relate. Blessings, Earnest. Dear Abby, you are too kind. I am merely one more prodigal son who sees the world through his newfound Catholic faith. If you like reading this “Devil’s Advocate” style, check out the original and best CS Lewis’s Screwtape Letters as well as Peter Kreeft’s Snakebite Letters.

Thank you for sharing your beautiful story, I’m sure other readers will relate. Blessings, Earnest.

]]> By: tryptiline_fabrica http://wigglebrick.com/the-root-of-all-good-is-love/comment-page-1/#comment-16 tryptiline_fabrica Fri, 16 Mar 2007 07:54:22 +0000 http://www.wigglebrick.com/the-root-of-all-good-is-love/#comment-16 Hello Mr Thornberry! I happened on your site after checking out pages from other Catholic student groups linked from my own group site here at Northwestern (Sheil Catholic Center, http://www.sheil.northwestern.edu/, links to CapitalC, which links to you). I read through a couple of your posts, but was particularly moved by this one about the family as the root of love. It's clear you're a professor (of what?), as your arguments are well thought out and progress very naturally for the discerning reader (me! ha ha!). It was a true joy to read this post as I couldn't agree more with most of it, but probably couldn't have constructed it so well as you did. The strongest chord was struck when you said: "The family is a key stronghold because it provides the natural setting for humans to learn the Enemy's notion of selfless love, where people are loved simply for who they are rather than for what they do." When I came to the US I was but 16 without a worry in the world. Soon after, my dear mum passed away leaving my sister and I behind without any relations nearby. I don't need to tell you how abrupt and devastating this was for us, especially considering we wanted to stay here and had only an elderly grandmother and an undesirable uncle back home to return to. We chose to stick it out. It was a very sad time for us, but also the most rewarding period of our lives as we came to depend on each other like most sisters probably never do. While I had neither a loving father nor doting grandparents like my school chums had back home, I learned early that strength imparted from family is much more about quality than quantity. I've been following some of the issues you write about my whole life and instinctively believe much as you do in the invincible strength of the family unit and the solidity of character it imparts to the individual and the spirit of community it provides to society at large. I can only hope that most realize this can be either the nuclear family that we all know and love from your famous Leave it to Beaver episodes, or a lone sister or brother. Thanks for your very well considered posts, I shall be watching for new ones by and by. Abby Hello Mr Thornberry! I happened on your site after checking out pages from other Catholic student groups linked from my own group site here at Northwestern (Sheil Catholic Center, http://www.sheil.northwestern.edu/, links to CapitalC, which links to you). I read through a couple of your posts, but was particularly moved by this one about the family as the root of love. It’s clear you’re a professor (of what?), as your arguments are well thought out and progress very naturally for the discerning reader (me! ha ha!). It was a true joy to read this post as I couldn’t agree more with most of it, but probably couldn’t have constructed it so well as you did.

The strongest chord was struck when you said: “The family is a key stronghold because it provides the natural setting for humans to learn the Enemy’s notion of selfless love, where people are loved simply for who they are rather than for what they do.” When I came to the US I was but 16 without a worry in the world. Soon after, my dear mum passed away leaving my sister and I behind without any relations nearby. I don’t need to tell you how abrupt and devastating this was for us, especially considering we wanted to stay here and had only an elderly grandmother and an undesirable uncle back home to return to. We chose to stick it out. It was a very sad time for us, but also the most rewarding period of our lives as we came to depend on each other like most sisters probably never do. While I had neither a loving father nor doting grandparents like my school chums had back home, I learned early that strength imparted from family is much more about quality than quantity. I’ve been following some of the issues you write about my whole life and instinctively believe much as you do in the invincible strength of the family unit and the solidity of character it imparts to the individual and the spirit of community it provides to society at large. I can only hope that most realize this can be either the nuclear family that we all know and love from your famous Leave it to Beaver episodes, or a lone sister or brother.

Thanks for your very well considered posts, I shall be watching for new ones by and by. Abby

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