Life on Rural Street

Losing touch with hope
The vision of you I once held
The vision of you is gone
Turn the lights off
The shadows lurking in the corner
Shut them out

My rock of faith is crumbling
The foundation once so secure
Is shaken
What was solid to me
Is simply fluid to you
And I wonder where you’ve gone

Where’s the story?
The one you wish you’d told me?
The curtain is split
Your shadows have been revealed
The story you told
Is the picture I’ll hold

What time is it in your world
Too late for second chances
Or too early to care?
The make believe land I once thought real
Has faded past my dreams

I can pretend you’re here
I will pretend you’re here…

In C.S. Lewis' book The Problem of Pain he addresses love in chapter 3. It made me think a lot about the difference between the world's view of love and what love really is. In one spot Lewis is using the analogy between God's love for humans and a man's love for a woman. He says this:

"When we fall in love with a woman, do we cease to care whether she is clean or diry, fair or foul? Do we not rather then first begin to care? Does any woman regard it as a sign of love in a man that he neither knows nor care how she is looking? Love may, indeed love the beloved when her beauty is lost: but not because it is lost. Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of the, but Love cannot cease to will their removal. Love is more sensitiv than hatred itself to every blemish in the beloved; his 'feeling is more soft and sensible than are the tender horns of cockled snails'. Of all power he forgives most, but he condones least: he is please with little, but demands all."

I automatically think of the the "PC" things in our society right now - love people, accept them, etc. But Lewis is talking about a love that wants the best we can be. While we are still loved, God wants us to get rid of our "infirmities" and "blemishes". Love is one thing, acceptance of sin or wrong-doing is another I think.

Change of subject...

I watched the movie, Judas, on Monday night. (I think it was on ABC) I was quite under-impressed. I was a bit disappointed actually - I had been hoping for more. My biggest disappointment was with the potrayal of Jesus. In one scene he asked Judas to watch the money because "he was terrible with it." excuse me? This IS Jesus we're talking about - right? Not to mention he was fair-skinned, hazel-eyed, and had blondish hair. Judas was shown as such a zealot. Someone who just got frustrated with Jesus not fighting. I need to research more about Judas I think. But I do think that he was portrayed as someone with more depth than simply the "betrayer" we all think of him as.

Jr. races in Atlanta on Sunday. I'm hoping for a better race than last week. Everyone watch, it's on FOX around noon or one PM on Sunday.