food for thought

Posted on January 5th, 2006 by Jeremy.
Categories: Religion.

I love this.

Yeah you are looking at this and saying quickly in the brain “TOO LONG” …shut your brain up and read it, it’s beautiful.

“… it might be true that the sun rises regularly because he never gets tired of rising. His routine might be due, not to a lifelessness, but to a rush of life. The thing I mean can be seen, for instance, in children, when they find some game or joke that they specially enjoy. A child kicks his legs ryhthmically through excess, not absence of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say , “Do it again”; and the grown up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, “Do it again” to the sun; and every evening, “Do it again” to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we. The repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore.” - G.K. Chesterton

9 comments.

Skedoozy

Comment on January 6th, 2006.

TOO LONG, TOO JESUSY. lol Jesusy. Just kidding, man. That’s awesome.

JMars

Comment on January 7th, 2006.

(comment dup. from myspace site. just trying to spread a little comment action)
Reading this, I came to the conclusion that I act like I little kid. Take last nights convo for example.
me “DO IT AGAIN, DO IT AGAIN!”
you “no..ohhh okay…”
and this repeats for 39 minutes….
hahaha.

and on a more dramatic note, great post. ahhh a theatrical encore…It’s beautiful. Doesn’t it make you want to go run through a field of flowers and then magically end up at the beach?

In regards to this post all I can do is sigh dramatically and be romanced by the greatness and awesomeness of G-O-D.

Thanks for posting this. It’s perfect. and ‘it makes me haaa-py.”

Seadog

Comment on January 7th, 2006.

“Doesn’t it make you want to go run through a field of flowers and then magically end up at the beach?”

I bet that’s exactly what Space was thinking of. :P

Sweet post man, it’s worth not letting ourselves create an expectation that everything has to be new and entertaining. The old can be too. :)

Jeremy

Comment on January 7th, 2006.

It’s funny because I said somewhat the same thing that you did Seadog on my myspace hahah. Yeah the old can be fun, I mean sheesh look at you, you are like 40 and you are pretty fun! hehehe

Seadog

Comment on January 7th, 2006.

I *am* pretty fun! And since you’re only a year younger then I am… let’s see.. that would make you thirty-stillsingle-nine… you still have plenty of fun days left too!

:P

Skedoozy

Comment on January 8th, 2006.

Bahahaha your all old and not fun!!!!!!!!

I’m young and fun.. well 1 out of 2 aint bad.

shannonmarieadams

Comment on January 8th, 2006.

I loooove that man’s writing. Excellent selection, kicker.

Mama Schwarzenegger

Comment on January 11th, 2006.

Perfect example: me
Old and entertaining!

Mama Schwarzenegger

Comment on January 11th, 2006.

I think that is why I love the beach. Each wave makes it new. And babies: everything they do, over and over is so fun to watch.
Don’t read more into that last one! No guilt trips reserved for January. Ha!

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