"What is man, that thou art mindful of him?""
Is there anything more "God-like" than being mindful of another?
If you can change someone else's life by a single word, a deed, a glance...or by walking with them for a few moments as they travel through the valley of shadow... then you have done more than than most men have done in a whole lifetime.
Nothing, and no one is more important than the one who is standing right in front of you...or as Fr. Stephen says:
"No where been commanded to change the world or to save civilization"...
"C.S. Lewis, in his The Abolition of Man,
wrote of “men without chests,” describing a certain breed of modern man
which had jettison his heart, having substituted false science and a
devalued subjectivity for the eternal verities that had once linked
human beings together in a common culture.
He wrote his work in the immediate years following World War II. Nothing in our educational system has reversed the trends of which he complained. We have not regained our chests – not as a culture.
However, we have no where been commanded to change the world or to save civilization.
These are things that are
measured on a much larger stage of history and longer period
than a
single life.
It is not the diagnosis of our disease that is so
important as it is the medicine of our healing.
The heart which must
again fill our chests is not some missing part of Western Civilization
but the heart of flesh that is our inheritance in Christ.
It is an
imperishable healing that alone can give us what we lack."
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h/t to father stephen
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