Verbum Humanum

"...elephantine adventures in pursuit of the obvious."

I'm Eric Farkas, currently a mechanical draftsman, as well as a web developer, doing mainly Ruby on Rails. I am also the CTO of TalentSoup, as well as one of the founding members of Sensus Divinitatis Publishing. I have a number of side projects, including SD News, Perplexed Labs, Inc. and GenXCommune. In a past life I was a founding member of HoverSpot.

I worship at the OPC of Franklin Square with my family, where I serve as a deacon.

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September 17, 2009

Do Not Despair Of This Life

"If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life." - Albert Camus

The Christian's hope for "another life" is not foolish. Indeed, "another life" which will be inaugurated at Christ's second coming, and which we already have a foretaste of in the new birth and through the means of grace, is an "anchor for the soul". But though, as pilgrims and sojourners, we look forward to eternity with eager expectation, let us not "elude the implacable grandeur of this life". It's in the little things: your child running to hug you when you walk though the door, a glass of wine shared with your spouse, an afternoon spent in the country, soaking up the sun.