For the month of October I am going to share some of my favorite quotes with you. I’ll elaborate a little on each quote, but for the most part the quotes speak for themselves.
A child kicks his legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "Do it again"; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.
G.K. Chesterton 'Orthodoxy'
The fall of man is often difficult to stomach. Because of our sin we have grown old and our world has gone awry. Sometimes it feels like God set the world in motion and then turned his back, but the truth is that God is not only the creator, but also the orchestrator.
He not only creates each daisy separately, but also creates each child uniquely and individually, thus we are each special to our Father. Every night God pours out the stars and hangs the moon and every morning He raises the sun. It is comforting to think that after a storm has crippled our spirits, God is there to lift the sun in order to renew them.
Jacob