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
I ate out last night. I saw some really strange things when I had wine too!
Tom
Tom – 🙂 Notice there was just 1 empty glass . . .
interesting the things one sees when you look beyond the “normal” look. Nicely seen. Happy experimenting
Jim R – Thanks on both counts.
Tough job but somebody’s got to do it!
Judith – Just part of my community service.
This photo revises the mundane view of your dining place the way Christopher Walken’s dancing forever revises the mundane view of a hotel lobby for those who have seen the video directed by Spike Jonze. You may find a face or two dancing in your wine glass.
Laurna – That video was new to me -many thanks!
I wanna stay at THAT hotel!
Barbara – 🙂
Isabel – too bad the glass is empty!
John – Yes, life is hard.
Laurna’s right — there is a face in that glass. Wearing its own glasses, I think.
Jim T
Jim – 🙂 It’s a struggle to get a close-in reflection without appearing in it.