Easter Morning
Peter Robinson ·
Apr 23, 2011 at 10:07pm
In varying ways they realized the new wonder; but even they hardly realized that the world had died in the night. What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth; and in a semblance of the gardener God walked again in the garden, in the cool not of the evening but of the dawn.
--G. K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
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Sep '10
Re: Easter Morning
Breathtaking.
I've read Chesterton's Father Brown stories and The Man Who was Thursday but never The Everlasting Man. Clearly I need to.
I never before noticed the parallel with the old Creation, in which God walked in the Garden of Eden in the cool of the evening after the Fall of Man.
Thanks for posting that, Peter.
Edited on Apr 23, 2011 at 10:21pmApr '11
Re: Easter Morning
Beautiful. Never heard of G.K. Chesterton, but looks like I'm gonna have to find out.
Oct '10
Re: Easter Morning
Astonishingly beautiful. I'll have to look Chesterton up too.
Sep '10
Re: Easter Morning
Thanks for sharing this thought. He is the resurrection and the life!
Jun '10
Re: Easter Morning
Thanks, Peter. A good place to start with Chesterton is Orthodoxy. Great, great man.
And funny. After he lectured, he always took questions, like this little exchange:
Question: "Mr. Chesterton, if you were banished to a desert island, what one book would you like to have with you?
[Everyone expected him to say the Bible, Summa Theologica of Aquinas, or some other worthy, spiritual book].
Response: "Thomas's Guide to Practical Shipbuilidng."
Sep '10
Re: Easter Morning
Chesterton and George Bernard Shaw were famous for arguing about many issues yet remaining friends. They were a study in opposites, even physically: GKC was rotund, while GBS was cadaverously thin.
One day Chesterton walked into a room, saw Shaw and they had the following exchange:
Chesterton (pointing at Shaw): Is there a famine in England?
Shaw (pointing back at GKC's belly): Yes, and now we know why!
Shaw (continuing): What will you name the baby?
Chesterton: If it is a boy, we shall name it ____; if a girl, _____; but if it is, as I suspect, merely a bag of wind, we shall name it George Bernard Shaw!
Apr '11
Re: Easter Morning
Peter Robinson
Thanks for that Peter...I discovered Chesterton from another great thinker, writer and christian apologist Ravi Zacharias (check out "Let My People Think" podcast , not a competitor). I recently downloaded "All Things Considered" by Chesterton for my Kindle and continue to find his wit and wisdom engaging.
I am truly grateful that in a world where time waits for no man and things come and go in an instant that there remains truth and wisdom that are timeless, eternal.
May God bless the aggregate wisdom of all Ricochet contributers and of course it's members.