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
Yay Ivan! I think this quest is fascinating, but I seem to be very poor at doing it – some perceptual deficiency? who knows, but I like seeing your photos of them.
Alison – It took me a long time to see my first face, and I still go for long periods without seeing any. And then I’ll see three in three days. Dunno how that works.
Isabel – and once you’ve seen a ‘face’ such as you’ve captured in a picture, is it ever possible to un-see that ‘face’?
John – No, not really. It’s like the images that can be seen in two ways. Hard, sometimes, to see the first after your perception has flipped foreground/background, or whatever it is, to see the second.
The face that looks towards the future…
Barbara – And that glances over its shoulder every so often, to see what might be gaining on it. 🙂 https://www.traditionaliconoclast.com/20190128_093241/