All that is not eternal is eternally out of date. Where except in the present can the eternal be met? - - CS Lewis
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Monday, July 29, 2013
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“Once in a hotel dining-room,” wrote Lewis, “I said, rather too loudly, ‘I loathe prunes.’ ‘So do I,’ came an unexpected six-year-old voice from another table. Sympathy was instantaneous. Neither of us thought it funny. We both knew that prunes are far too nasty to be funny. That is the proper meeting between man and child as independent personalities.”
“Once in a hotel dining-room,” wrote Lewis, “I said, rather too loudly, ‘I loathe prunes.’ ‘So do I,’ came an unexpected six-year-old voice from another table. Sympathy was instantaneous. Neither of us thought it funny. We both knew that prunes are far too nasty to be funny. That is the proper meeting between man and child as independent personalities.”
Flowers of Narnia - July 17 / 2022
“Look at the lilies and how they grow. They don’t work or make their clothing, yet Solomon in all his glory was not dressed as beautifully ...
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The discussions revolved around the pressures of the ordinary and how distractions interfere with o ur relationship to eternal matters.
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Continued - - - if you are interested - long reading - I should have read these advices before I edited a book last year :-) - - - - Now of...