Posted by
Buster Foghorn on Thursday, October 12, 2006 10:20:34 PM
Professor J. Rufus Fears (University of Oklahoma) in a Teaching Company lecture titled: Books That Have Made History: Books That Can Change Your Life talks about the Book of Job. It got me to thinking about the recent murders of five young Amish girls. I wondered where the strength came from for the Amish to collect money for the window and children of the murderer who killed five young Amish girls. Many townspeople announced their forgiveness of Roberts directly to his wife and children. Does this strength exist outside of a deeply held religious belief?
Acts of forgiveness like this are so uncommon these days. Rod Dreher noted that: “[w] hat sets hearts apart is how they deal with sins and tragedies.” We see that today with how different families handle grief during 9/11 or the loss of loved ones during the conflicts in Iraq or Afghanistan.
The Iliad is only great because all life is a battle, the Odyssey because all life is a journey, the Book of Job because all life is a riddle. (The Defendant)
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October Is Chesterton Month For Daily Quotes: G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) is a three-story intellect* whose “…best illuminations come from above through the skylight.”
* Who are three story thinkers? Oliver Wendell Holmes provided the idea for this series of daily blogs in a quote believed to be from a short story called: “The Three Story House.”
“There are one-story intellects, two story intellects, and three story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare, reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine and predict. Their best illuminations come from above through the skylight.” Oliver Wendell Holmes, writer, physician