No ordinary people…

I just polished another Lewis gem, The Weight of Glory.  Imagine if you believed as Lewis did.

Can you imagine what your neighborhood, your school, your company, your family, and your friends would enjoy if you aligned your behaviors with your belief?

I cannot imagine…

“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 – immortal horrors or everlasting splendours.  This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn.  We must play.  But our merriment must be of that kind which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously – no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption.  And our charity must be real and costly LOVE, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we LOVE the sinner – no mere tolerance, or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment.  Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object present to your senses.”

God, help me see people through your lens.

God, help me…