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Yes, I am here, just busy. School is still crazy, so I apologize for the very infrequent posts, though Laura has done a great job posting regularly. Right now, I'm working on a paper and sermon on Genesis 49:1-12, a sermon on 2 Timothy 4:1-8, a paper on the historicity of Genesis 1-11 based on the New Testament's use of those passages, and a paper on C. S. Lewis's impact on my spiritual formation. Please pray for resilience in these last few weeks. I am tired of school and the end is in sight (I was measured for my cap and gown last week!), but I also need to take advantage of these classes. Pray that I will see them as opportunities for growth, not simply academic exercises.
For your reading pleasure, I give you a piece from C. S. Lewis's sermon, "The Weight of Glory." It is really beautiful, but here is my favorite portion.
"It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilization - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendours."
From The Essential C. S. Lewis, edited by Lyle W. Dorsett, p.369.
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