Reflecting in the Mirror
"The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence... Whoever has approved this idea of oder... will not find it preposterous that the past should be altered by the present as much as the present is directed by the past." -T.S. Eliot
"It is eighteen hundred years and more since Jesus Christ walked here on earth. But this is not an event like other events which, only when they are bygone, pass over into history, and then as events long bygone, pass over into forgetfulness. No, His presence here on earth never becomes a bygone event, and never becomes more and more bygone - in case faith is to be found on earth. And if not, then indeed at that very instant it is a long, long time since He lived. But so long as there is a believer, such a one must, in order to become such, have been, and as a believer must continue to be, just as contemporary with His presence on earth as were those [first] contemporaries." -Soren Kierkegaard
"It is eighteen hundred years and more since Jesus Christ walked here on earth. But this is not an event like other events which, only when they are bygone, pass over into history, and then as events long bygone, pass over into forgetfulness. No, His presence here on earth never becomes a bygone event, and never becomes more and more bygone - in case faith is to be found on earth. And if not, then indeed at that very instant it is a long, long time since He lived. But so long as there is a believer, such a one must, in order to become such, have been, and as a believer must continue to be, just as contemporary with His presence on earth as were those [first] contemporaries." -Soren Kierkegaard
Look at the stars . . . Some of them have been extinguished for thousands of years, but their light is only reaching us now. The past is always influencing the present. I can't change that. All I can do is try to understand it.
If you were me, would I understand you?
"Lights will guide you home, and ignite your bones, and I will try to fix you."
1 Comments:
So how are you my friend? What have you been up too? I have a challange for us. That is, what have we done to bring our friends to know God. To know Jesus? This was asked in my study this morning. How are we reaching Matt M. and Brett? I ask these things because it is these two I worry most about. Hope your classes are finishing up and you have great plans for the summer. Maybe be a bar keep in the bahamas? Just throwing it out there. Ha!
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