I read somewhere the other day that Paul McCartney has decided to stop fishing because fish don't want to die and be eaten any more than he does. I found this particularly amusing. The idea that animals and fish are somehow on a par with man is just not right. Blaise Pascal wrote "The greatness of man is great in that he knows his own misery. A tree does not know its misery." And I would think that a fish doesn't know it either.
Okay so that means it is misery to know one's misery, but to know it is to be great. I'll agree to this. In fact, all this misery is really proof of God's greatness. God was great when he put down his crown and became miserable like us, here on earth. That must be the ultimate in misery, to give up so much to be miserable with us and for us and literally serving us. The contrast is stunning.
SK writes, "There truly is a fellowship of suffering with God, a pact of tears, which is intrinsically very beautiful." And he says, "The highest expression for the worth of earthly life (of temporality) is precisely the expectation of the eternal or its nearness." How is it that fish, animals, and trees, grasp this?
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