Well-written. Thank you! The cellular mutations and all the havoc they wreak on us is all part of the natural order. Mutation gives us, as you have so wisely said, adaptation. It also causes harm and loss. It's not personal and you are so very wise to have come to this. It can't be hoped away or hoped away, but sometimes science can suppress or destroy it. It matters tremendously when it is OUR body that is afflicted, but in the large view, we're just a speck in the giant natural order, which is playing out as it should. You are a wise and brave person!
>The body is a consortium: 30 trillion cells, each a living organism.
From this morning's reading:
Dr. Watts, reflecting- on the innumerable channels through which the blood is conveyed over the whole animal system, breaks out in wonder and astonishment, saying,
"Strange that an harp of thousand strings,
Should keep in tune so long."
-Reflections on death. By William Dodd, M.A. chaplain to the lord's bishop of St. David's, 1763
Well-written. Thank you! The cellular mutations and all the havoc they wreak on us is all part of the natural order. Mutation gives us, as you have so wisely said, adaptation. It also causes harm and loss. It's not personal and you are so very wise to have come to this. It can't be hoped away or hoped away, but sometimes science can suppress or destroy it. It matters tremendously when it is OUR body that is afflicted, but in the large view, we're just a speck in the giant natural order, which is playing out as it should. You are a wise and brave person!
>The body is a consortium: 30 trillion cells, each a living organism.
From this morning's reading:
Dr. Watts, reflecting- on the innumerable channels through which the blood is conveyed over the whole animal system, breaks out in wonder and astonishment, saying,
"Strange that an harp of thousand strings,
Should keep in tune so long."
-Reflections on death. By William Dodd, M.A. chaplain to the lord's bishop of St. David's, 1763