Merging a patchwork of some things read over the past few days, so hang with me on this:
In Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis notes: “Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, nor obvious, not what you expect…. Reality, in fact, is usually something you could not have guessed.” That rings true to me.
In that I was reminded of this line from Baz Luhrmann’s Sunscreen: “Don’t worry about the future, or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind. The kind what blindside you at 4:00 p.m. on some idle Tuesday.”
And then there’s 2 Cor. 5:16-18: “Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.”
It occurs to me in all this that those odd twists in life, those things that come out of left field, are not exceptions to life, they ARE life. As Lewis notes, reality is odd, and as Luhrmannn notes, we get blindsided. Which takes us back to the seemingly enigmatic punchline in 2 Cor. 5:18 – “So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen.”
It occurs to me... 