The Weight of Glory
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in letting us be called the children of God.
Yet that is what we are.
Dearly beloved,
we are God’s children now;
what we shall later be has not yet come to light.
We know that when it comes to light
we shall be like him,
for we shall see him as he is.
~1 John 3:1-2
“There are no ordinary people. You have never talked
to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilization—these are mortal, and
their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke
with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit— immortal horrors or everlasting
splendours. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must
play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest
kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other
seriously—no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption. And our charity must be
a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we
love the sinner—no mere tolerance or indulgence which parodies love as
flippancy parodies merriment. Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your
neighbour is the holiest object presented to your senses. If he is your
Christian neighbour he is holy in almost the same way, for in him also Christ vere
latitat—the glorifier and the glorified, Glory Himself, is truly hidden.”
~C. S. Lewis (partial re-post from his sermon “The Weight of
Eternal Glory”)
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