“One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night, or deep in sloping meadows, the feeling that every flower and leaf has just uttered something stupendously direct and important, and that we have by a prodigy of imbecility not heard or understood it. There is…
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The Government as God
“Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God.” G.K. Chesterton from Christendom in Dublin, 1933 Welcome to modern England where the government has become the god via the tentacles of the NHS in sentencing Alfie Evans to death, and in the process usurping the rights of his parents, and disregarding the requests of his Roman Catholic religion in the form…
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The Thrill of Obedience
“Obedience. The most thrilling word in the world; a very thunderclap of a word. Why do all these fools fancy that the soul is only free when it disagrees with the common command? Why should mere disagreement make us feel free? I know you are fond of dancing; do you want to dance to a different tune from your partner’s?…
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The Adventure of Life
“We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it encounters, but by what flag it follows and what high town it assaults. The most dangerous thing in the world is to be alive; one is always in danger of one’s life. But anyone who shrinks from that…
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The Nativity
The Nativity The thatch on the roof was as golden, Though dusty the straw was and old, The wind had a peal as of trumpets, Though blowing and barren and cold, The mother’s hair was a glory Though loosened and torn, For under the eaves in the gloaming A child was born. Have a myriad children been quickened, Have a…
