May 10, 2023

“So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.” (2 Corinthians 5:16)

“There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit.”  

That is from C.S. Lewis, alluding to the fact that we are people with souls who will live eternally. In Lewis’ view, either in splendor or it’s opposite. We do not that we are all created in God’s image, bearing the inherent dignity given to us by our Father.

Might make a person pause?

“O God, who wonderfully created, and yet more wonderfully restored, the dignity of human nature: Grant that we mayshare the divine life of him who humbled himself to share our humanity, your Son Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.” (Second Sunday after Christmas- BCP)