In a world of fugitives the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away. If the truth has made us odd, if we have not accommodated ourselves out of all recognition, then it will appear to some people that we're running away, that we're living an escapist existence, that we're outsiders, even outlaws – whereas the truth is that we're the insiders, because we're bearing God's reality, not the world's. We are the true establishment, because we are building and inhabiting God's basilica, the commonwealth of eternity, not earth.
From: TS Eliot, The Family Reunion (hat-tip to inward/outward)
Monday, May 19, 2008
A long obedience in the opposite direction...
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2 comments:
Gotta love TS Eliot.
This is great - I need to go pray with this.
Thank you - always, I thank you Mike.
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