Exulting in Monotony

Hi, me again, for your once whenever I get around to it blog update.  Sorry that I break every promise to keep you updated and blog more.  On the health front I'm feeling good, waiting on results of a CT Scan, so I promise (and by promise I mean "maybe") I will update you when I hear.

But that's not why I'm blogging today.  I was looking for a Chesterton quote today and came across the one below - it's from Chesterton but unfortunately it goes un-cited on the page on which I found it.  But it fits well with some things I have been thinking thoughtfully about lately, when I have time to think. 

I once heard it said, and this may come from Chesterton, that all of the problems in the world are caused by man's inability to sit still in a room.  In other words, we are restless, always trying to make things happen - it is as if we treat it as our moral obligation to be perpetually dissatisfied.  Of course we spiritually spruce up our language and call it "striving for excellence," or "pursuing a more passionate spiritual walk," or "being relevant," but I've come to believe all of that is a smokescreen for the fact that we have acquiesced to the spirit of the age, ergo, the newer and more flashy is always better.  

The greatest blessing of the Noahic Covenant is God's promise to not destroy the world with a flood, but the second and only slightly less well known is God's promise of a regularly ordered world - Genesis 8:22

“As long as the earth endures,
seedtime and harvest,
cold and heat,
summer and winter,
day and night
will never cease.”

In other words, as long as life endures we will live in a world governed by regularity and sameness.   

So, enough of my rambling, here's the quote I loved so much this morning: 

A child kicks its legs rhythmically 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... 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.

Grown ups are not strong enough to exult in monotony - think about that one for awhile!. 

May God bless you greatly today!