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
Well, I sure missed the first occurrence. Are you suggesting I might not be around for the next?
Tom
Tom – You can manage your celebrations based on your own expectations. Me, I decided not to wait for the next one.
I wondered why you weren’t commenting?? but I did appreciate the day and its significance.
Alison – Just asleep at the wheel.
I knew a gay couple got married on a similar numbers day. They were very excited about it. (Eludes me.)
Barbara – We would have tried to get married on 06/06/06 but the Big Guy had a golf weekend of many years standing that took precedence. And likely we couldn’t have got a booking anyway.
909 years ago? “Ah yes, I remember it well,” — Maurice Chevalier in Gigi
Jim T
Jim – 🙂 Also, I figure that 909 years ago folks weren’t using any of the date formats referenced (US, UK, ISO) but, hey.
Let’s see: II II MMXX, nope, not palindromic.
Jim T
Jim – 🙂
Obviously, not that many of us remember it as well as you and Maurice Chevalier.
Tom
Oh, oh – fight’s on, Jim.
I was thinking of you on 20200202. And had one legitimate occasion on which to write the date!
Judith – Excellent!