Friday, July 09, 2004

 

God is Young

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.

G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936), Orthodoxy [1909]
Stolen from an email from a friend

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