Things I think

I think that life is full and even when more comes it somehow seems to fit. As we look forward to the birth of our second child the thought enters my mind: how do we get life done? I am amazed at how God gives us what we need, not want; when we need, not want it. And if He doesn't give us something then we will find out why we didn't need it sooner or later.

I do not think that life is meaningless. Those who are of the Post-modern bent need to either stop reading or make an attempt to consider that objective truth exist. If life is meaningless (the only valid conclusion for a post-modern because meaning implies truth) then why does love exist? Why does it feel great when we are part of something that is bigger then ourselves? I am not aware of a society that does not have this sense of bigness. Its like at the end of one of the Lord of Rings: the Two Towers when same talks about goodness.

Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.

Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam?

Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for.

These are the things I think about when I tuck my daughter in at night.