CQOD: 05/15/06 -- Lewis: our glorious neighbors

Christian Quotation of the Day

May 15, 2006

Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945

Meditation:
    For this slight momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
    -- 2 Corinthians 4:17,18 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    It may be possible for each of us to think too much of his own potential glory hereafter; it is hardly possible for him to think too often or too deeply about that of his neighbor. The load, or weight, or burden, of my neighbor’s glory should be laid daily on my back, a load so heavy that only humility can carry it, and the backs of the proud will be broken. It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship—or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people.
    ... C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), “The Weight of Glory” [1949]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, purge all contempt for others from my mind and heart.

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