Doctor Dolly: I haven't by the way forgotten about your Oxfam idea. I'm not yet sure how or anything, but the idea is now there, and I'm thinking about it, so thank you. (I feel at this point like humming, "I get by with a little help from my [imaginary] friends")
Yes, elder care is sad and hilarious both -- and so often falls to the wife and the daughters, though not always, of course. You will never go back into that particular box once you've been on the other side. Instead, your mission starts happening in other spaces because there are people who need you and the Lion's Paw knows how to put two and two together. This is beautifully eloquent. Thank you.
One is that God allows sin/suffering because he knows he can save us from it. The other is that he uses ones who have not seen, but yet believe to rebuke the ones who have seen and revolted. The later part of that is I suppose in the Christian Bible, the story of doubting Thomas, Gospel of John, blessed are those who have not seen yet still believe. The first part, I can see that being something Jill would say and I can also see what Eustace's counter-argument would be. I further recognize my intellectual inability to mount much of an argument on either side. I'm with Peter and if someone raises these things, I wave a flag of surrender, hand them over to my lay theologian spouse, and reach for the tequila. Someone once said, in the middle of Part 1 that I had the habit of setting up sticky issues, presenting different views on them, and then not answering the questions. And I agree with you completely that Eustace would never not be a friend of Narnia for his redemption is too important. But having experienced first hand that power, would he wonder why it wasn't used for more than just one spoiled, nasty boy? He believes in Aslan and will always work to do the Lion's work, but maybe his anger at Aslan manifests itself in non-belief here?
I'm thinking about this because a part of the Christmas chapter will involve the trip to church -- I need to figure out what COE services were like -- did they have vigil Christmas Eve services or did everyone go in the morning? The bits of reading I've done have made it sound as if there are lots of evening services -- because the churches weren't lit and the black out blinds were up. And when the family does go, what are Eustace and Lucy up to?
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I haven't by the way forgotten about your Oxfam idea. I'm not yet sure how or anything, but the idea is now there, and I'm thinking about it, so thank you. (I feel at this point like humming, "I get by with a little help from my [imaginary] friends")
Yes, elder care is sad and hilarious both -- and so often falls to the wife and the daughters, though not always, of course.
You will never go back into that particular box once you've been on the other side. Instead, your mission starts happening in other spaces because there are people who need you and the Lion's Paw knows how to put two and two together.
This is beautifully eloquent. Thank you.
One is that God allows sin/suffering because he knows he can save us from it. The other is that he uses ones who have not seen, but yet believe to rebuke the ones who have seen and revolted.
The later part of that is I suppose in the Christian Bible, the story of doubting Thomas, Gospel of John, blessed are those who have not seen yet still believe. The first part, I can see that being something Jill would say and I can also see what Eustace's counter-argument would be. I further recognize my intellectual inability to mount much of an argument on either side. I'm with Peter and if someone raises these things, I wave a flag of surrender, hand them over to my lay theologian spouse, and reach for the tequila. Someone once said, in the middle of Part 1 that I had the habit of setting up sticky issues, presenting different views on them, and then not answering the questions.
And I agree with you completely that Eustace would never not be a friend of Narnia for his redemption is too important. But having experienced first hand that power, would he wonder why it wasn't used for more than just one spoiled, nasty boy? He believes in Aslan and will always work to do the Lion's work, but maybe his anger at Aslan manifests itself in non-belief here?
I'm thinking about this because a part of the Christmas chapter will involve the trip to church -- I need to figure out what COE services were like -- did they have vigil Christmas Eve services or did everyone go in the morning? The bits of reading I've done have made it sound as if there are lots of evening services -- because the churches weren't lit and the black out blinds were up. And when the family does go, what are Eustace and Lucy up to?