식물인간으로 아무것도 하지 못한 채 10년 동안 의식만 돌아와 있었다는 사람의 이야기를 읽었다. 가족들은 환자의 의식이 돌아와 있다는 사실을 알지 못했고..
아무것도 할 수 없는 상태에서 오직 생각만 할 수 있었던 사람. '생각을 한다'는 것이 오히려 얼마나 고통스러운 일이었는지를 증언한다.
오늘날 교회. 교회의 머리이신 그리스도께서만 깨어 계실 때 얼마나 고통스러우실지..
I have just read a story about a man who had got back from a vegetative state that lasted more than a decade. He says he had been conscious for at least 10 years before the full recovery, which the family never knew as he was absolutely immobile.
While he could not do anything but thinking, he testifies, that thinking was more of a pain, a very big pain than grace.
Reading the story, I think of Christ, the head of the church, possibly the only properly working part of the whole body of the church. How painful might He feel?