I'm going to take another week to work on If Thou But Suffer God To Guide Thee. Such a good hymn, but its length and my own laziness this week have kept me from memorizing the entire thing. I am not to sorry to be able to spend more time on it, though. You can join me if you'd like, take a week off, pick your own hymn, or shake your head at my delinquencies...as you please. :)
I read Miracles by C. S. Lewis in April and thought I would share a few favorite quotes with you (in substitution for a new hymn). Enjoy!
"Christ did not die for men because they were intrinsically worth dying for, but because He is intrinsically love, and therefore loves infinitely."
"Collective hallucination, hypnotism of unconsenting spectators, widespread instantaneous conspiracy in lying by persons not otherwise known to be liars and not likely to gain by the lie--all these are known to be very improbably events: so improbably that except for the special purpose of excluding a miracle, they are never suggested. But they are preferred to the admission of a miracle."
"One the one hand Death is the triumph of Satan, the punishment of the Fall, and the last enemy. Christ shed tears at the grave of Lazarus and sweated blood in Gethsemane: the Life of Lives that was in Him detested this penal obscenity not less than we do, but more. On the other hand, only he who loses his life will save it. We are baptised into the death of Christ, and it is the remedy for the Fall. Death is, in fact, what some modern people call 'ambivalent'. It is Satan's great weapon and also God's great weapon: it is holy and unholy; our supreme disgrace and our only hop; the thing Christ came to conquer and the means by which He conquered."
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Well, I contemplated shaking my head, but decided not to. I should probably review. :) If I don't make a list soon of the ones I've worked on, I'm liable to forget which ones need review since they may not come to mind at all.
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