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| Saturday, 18 February 2006 15:24 |
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So Sarah and I got a lot more socializin' done last week than usual. It feeds her soul but wears me out. Don't get me wrong, I love all these people, but I crave the lonely times, too. The nature of my job is fairly self-contained, and my pasttimes have always been things I do on my own. I'm sure this is all due to several factors. Sarah has certainly taught me to think more about the people around me. Well, I've always been good at thinking about them, just not actually doing anything about them. Soo I'm grateful that she helps me to be more active in my sentiments. Check out this little excerpt from Mere Christianity by CS Lewis: The rule for all of us is perfectly simple. Do not waste time bothering whether you 'love' your neighbor; act as if you did. AS soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved some one, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less. There is, indeed, one exception. If you do him a good turn, not to please God and obey the law of charity, but to show him what a fine forgiving chap you are, and to put him in your debt, and then sit down and wait for his 'gratitude', you will probably be disappointed. (People are not fools: they have a very quick eye for anything like showing off, or patronage.) But whenever we do good to another self, just because it is a self, made (like us) by God, and desiring its own happiness as we desire ours, we shall have learned to love it a little more or, at least, to dislike it less. --CS Lewis: Mere Christianity |
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