Goings on today. The O'Quilt's neighbors checking it all out.
Dylan helping to move the big branch, Evan helped with the final push, even though he did not want to dirty his shoes.
Very Applicable to today: written by CS Lewis in 1948
You may have seen this, written by CS Lewis in 1948. Very applicable to today:
“In one way we think a great deal too much of the atomic bomb. ‘How are we to live in an atomic age?’ I am tempted to reply: ‘Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking age when raiders from Scandinavia might land and cut your throat any night; or indeed, as you are already living in an age of cancer, an age of syphilis, an age of paralysis, an age of air raids, an age of railway accidents, an age of motor accidents.’
In other words, do not let us begin by exaggerating the novelty of our situation. Believe me, dear sir or madam, you and all whom you love were already sentenced to death before the atomic bomb was invented: and quite a high percentage of us were going to die in unpleasant ways. We had, indeed, one very great advantage over our ancestors—anesthetics; but we have that still. It is perfectly ridiculous to go about whimpering and drawing long faces because the scientists have added one more chance of painful and premature death to a world which already bristled with such chances and in which death itself was not a chance at all, but a certainty.
This is the first point to be made: and the first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things—praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.”
I just love CS Lewis!!! He is the one who wrote that grief was so much like being concussed...Amen CS...You got that right.``In fact, you got a lot of things right. xo
Now I am so happy, I am going to sew after my meeting!
4 comments:
So thrilled for you with today’s post. CS Lewis is my favorite. He is just as relevant as when he wrote in past crisis.
I love C.S. Lewis but had never seen that quote before - thank you for sharing - so so relevant!
I recently took a college class online about CS Lewis and then purchased many of his books to read. I had not run across that quote but is the way my husband and I have lived the last 18 months. We do not have the spirit of fear. We have just gone about our lives as much as the government is allowing us to.
It is nice to have those nagging chores done, especially when you get some empty space. I am not sure I agree with Mr. Lewis - any additional ways to kill me is a bummer, but definitely, it is just one of many.
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