Tuesday, September 16, 2008

When the World Falls

Hey ya'll! Hope you're having a lovely week. (Thanks for the birthday wishes!)

For the record, we're in the middle of transitioning to another blog provider (among other things), so weirdness may occur on the RSS feed. Please bear with us!

On top of reading some great thoughts from Elisabeth Elliot, I found a quote from C.S. Lewis' essay "Living in the Atomic Age." This excerpt made me wonder if the principle behind his essay might be applied to other, more modern fears...


"If we are going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things -- praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends...not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They might break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds."



How does that fit in with the presidential election...



Global warming...



War with Iran...



Or any plethora of fears that might steal our joy if we let them?

Hmm...

Labels: