Monday, March 25, 2013

Do It Again

"Reviewing, meditating, reflecting, pondering are overlapping and important concepts that are assisted by repetition where each trip over the same terrain allows God to 'enlarge my heart.'
G. K. Chesterton has wonderfully observed:
'A child kicks his 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 to exult in monotony... 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.'" (James MacDonald)

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