In this passage, Chesterton understands the modern people's worldview as dead and reduced as a simple cycle. He instead reveals an alternative vision to where instead, every time an egg is laid, God, like a child, is saying ,"do it again, again", so the world does it again for Him. When saying this, Chesterton means that the world is not stuck in a life cycle, but instead everything in the universe is alive and working one after another for God. This is vastly different than the lifeless mindset of the worldview today, and is important that we keep our minds today open to life, and not hard and fast rules. We have grown tired of the jaw dropping marvels around us, while God still sees it with that awe ans joy that we should, but have grown tired of due to sin. Before reading this, my worldview was that the world was amazing, but not alive like Chesterton. I believe that if everyone saw things like this, the world would be even more lively with a respect with the world around us that it deserves.
Daran: Thank you for your response and thoughtful reflections. I like how you've said that you always have thought the world was amazing (a good sign of spiritual health :), but not alive. I'm glad that you think it more "personal" so to speak.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I mentioned in my previous comment to you that when you have a "slew" of questions that you need not break them up into individual responses. That is still true, however, when I do have separate questions (in this case #1-4), I do want you to respond to each individually. To clarify more, the last post "The Incarnation" I DID ask you a "slew" of questions where it would be appropriate to answer in paragraph form. For the Chesterton response, treat each individually, and if one of the listed questions has multiple questions, then answer all of those under that number. If that is not clear, come see me :)
In this instance, I have to really go looking for your response to each question in your paragraph, and I'm not sure I see them all explicitly. To HELP: use the language of the question in your response. This is not a suggestion, but a request.
Thanks, Daran!