Lord Peter Wimsey to the Vicar, Mr Tredgold in Dorothy Sayers’ Unnatural Death.
“S’posin’ one knows somebody who’s very, very ill and can’t last long anyhow. And they’re in awful pain and all that, and kept under morphia — practically dead to the world, you know…Well supposin’ somebody…was just to give ’em a little push off so to speak — hurry matters on…it doesn’t do the person any harm does it?”
“We can’t answer that,” said Mr Tredgold, “without knowing the ways of God with the soul. In those last weeks or hours of pain and unconsciousness, the soul may be undergoing some necessary part of it’s pilgrimage on earth. It isn’t our business to cut it short.”
As a society, we rarely consider the soul anymore. Even in the midst of the current scandal in the Catholic Church, we hear of justice, charity, faith, and financial considerations. But what about the souls of the wronged and the souls of those who committed the evil acts?
Souls can be lost. We have to make sure we allow for healing of our own souls and for those of others. That healing can look like/be sacrifice and suffering. God gives us what we need.
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