Continuing my Eὐχαριστέω - Multitudes on monday

“There is a stage in a child’s life at which it cannot separate the religious from the merely festal character of Christmas or Easter. I have been told of a very small and very devout boy who was heard murmuring to himself on Easter morning a poem of his own composition which began ‘Chocolate eggs and Jesus risen.’ This seems to me, for his age, both admirable poetry and admirable piety. But of course the time will soon come when such a child can no longer effortlessly and spontaneously enjoy that unity. He will become able to distinguish the spiritual from the ritual and festal aspect of Easter; chocolate eggs will no longer seem sacramental. And once he has distinguished he must put one or the other first. If he puts the spiritual first he can still taste something of Easter in the chocolate eggs; if he puts the eggs first they will soon be no more than any other sweetmeat. They will have taken on an independent, and therefore a soon withering, life.” – C. S. Lewis

Continuing my Eὐχαριστέω - Multitudes on Mondays

472 … Coming home - always
473 … Knowing when enough is enough
474 … The hard lesson of stress
475 … Ticking things off the to-do-list
476 … Easter – thinking about what is important
477 … Pie Jesu
478 … Sneezing
479 … Cooking for three (longing for four)
480 … 4 days off work
481 … Alarm-free mornings
482 … Easter
483 … Gethsemane – the part that made me believe
484 … Knowing I cannot understand the magnitude of what Jesus did … for me … and it is still ok
485 … Shared stories of faith
486 … Chocolate (Anthon Berg) eggs
487 … The washing machine
488 … Books (always books). This time “I wrote this for you”