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10/07/2002 Entry: "Out and about in blogland"

If you haven't been following Marcus Naismith Gets a Job at the John Heron Project, can I humbly suggest you do yourself a favour and catch up with it? You'll enjoy it. Honest. Ian's Messy Desk reports a helpful primer from The Salvation Army on the tenth commandment which quotes from C.S. Lewis:

"We Westerners preached Christ with our lips, with our actions we brought slavery of Mammon. . . . In reading the history of Europe, its destructive succession of wars, of avarice, or fratricidal persecutions of Christians by Christians, of luxury, of gluttony, of pride, who could detect any but the rarest traces of the Holy Spirit?" (C.S. Lewis, The Latin Letters of C.S. Lewis)

If we would communicate in good faith with each other, not in competition, we might learn something rather shocking. We might find out that we are all about equally confused and forlorn, and begin to feel some sympathy for each other on that account. That sympathy, not social engineering, is the motive for Christlike succor. Notice: this does not necessitate agreeing on programs, or analyses of needs. It only requires frankly confessing to each other that we have no such thing to offer. That confession, if we could make it, would uncover our real consubstantiality with each other. And that, unlike political or doctrinal agreement, is within our power to realize.

Posted by Bene Diction @ 10/11/2002 06:12 AM CST

I always get a warm fuzzy feeling whenever I get a plug. :)

Posted by Wood @ 10/08/2002 08:50 AM CST