Underhill: the consequences of the curse

Monday, October 12, 2015
    Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709
    Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845
Meditation:
    For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.
    —Romans 8:20-22 (NIV)
Quotation:
    The life of this planet, and especially its human life, is a life in which something has gone wrong, and badly wrong. Every time we see an unhappy face, an unhealthy body, hear a bitter or despairing word, we are reminded of that. The occasional dazzling flashes of pure beauty, pure goodness, pure love which show us what God wants and what He is, only throw into more vivid relief the horror of cruelty, greed, oppression, hatred, ugliness.
    ... Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941), Evelyn Underhill: Essential Writings, Orbis Books, 2003, p. 37 (see the book)
    See also Rom. 8:20-22; Gen. 3:16-19; 5:29; Ps. 127:2; Eccl. 2:17; Isa. 24:5-6
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You are the only source of light. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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