The sun rises every morning. I do not rise every morning, but the variation is due not to my activity, but to my inaction. Now, to put the matter in a popular phrase, it might be true that the sun rises regularly because he never gets tired of rising. His routine might be due, not to a lifelessness, but to a rush of life.
The thing I mean can be seen, for instance, in children, when they find some game or joke that they specially enjoy. 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 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. (paragraph breaks added)
Source: Orthodoxy, GK Chesterton
Isabel
You mean that “all the birdies, butterflies, bears, bobolinks, bald-headed men, even bishops, barged into the boat and began to bail before the boat bemired below its bow at break” of day?
Is that what you are trying to say?
Keep smilin’
Tom
Tom – Pesky poets! Next time, I’ll ask you.
Providing those pesky poets are perfectly predictable and not periodically perfunctory.
Maybe shouldn’t risk it.
Tom
To – Hmm. P’raps it is preposterous to think that the predominant poetic property would be persistence.
Probably!
Tom
Tom – 😉
Lovely pictures, although you would have to be there to distinguish daybreak from sunset. There should be a poem in there . . . .
Laurna – 🙂
The image is a poem w/o words. 😀
Barbara – There you go. And with no need to rhyme.