Argghh! One wakes up on St. Patrick’s Day and thinks green beer and contemplates what green garment I have in my closet to wear. (Do I have any green garments? Green socks? Anything green?) But C. S. Lewis and Oswald Chambers will have none of that. No, today they want to talk about heaven and hell, good and bad choices, and how all those decisions shape life. Not a green shamrock or a leprechaun in sight.
From C. S. Lewis:
“I would much rather say that every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before. And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning that central thing either into a heavenly creature or a hellish creature….”
From Oswald Chambers:
“Is my master ambition to please Him and be acceptable to Him, or is it something less, no matter how noble.”
I suppose Lewis, Chambers, and George Jones are an unlikely trio, but what the heck – It is St. Patrick’s Day. (Actually, the songwriting credit goes to Billy Yates and Michael Curtis):
“I’ve had choices, since the day that I was born, and I’ve heard voices, that told me right from wrong. If I had listened, no I wouldn’t be here today. Livin’ and dyin’ with the choices I made.”
I am going to look in my closet for something green. Is it too early for a green beer?
It occurs to me... 