I couldn't resist lifting this from the Desiring God blog...
"You can be so interested in great theological and intellectual and philosophical problems that you tend to forget that you are going to die." - Martin Lloyd Jones, Preaching and Preachers, p. 193
Ouch. A good thing to keep in mind.
Well, so that is that. Now we must dismantle the tree,
Putting the decorations back into their cardboard boxes...
There are enough left-overs to do, warmed-up, for the rest of the week--
Not that we have much appetite, having drunk such a lot,
Stayed up so late, attempted--quite unsuccessfully--
To love all of our relatives, and in general
Grossly overestimated our powers. Once again
As in previous years we have seen the actual Vision and failed
To do more than entertain it as an agreeable
Possibility, once again we have sent Him away...
The Christmas Feast is already a fading memory,
And already the mind begins to be vaguely aware
Of an unpleasant whiff of apprehension...
“Do you really want a solution or is the constant refrain ‘why’ a way of escaping the responsibility of the answer?”
When we cry out “Why?” in the midst of the unthinkable violence of our time, our predicament, I believe, is the same. There are some clues we already have--enough to bring correctives within our reach. But do we really want the truth?
- from 'Miltons in a Weary Land' by Ravi Zacharias
