I've been feeling a bit on the blah side lately--I sift through paper for my job currently. and things were becoming lackluster.
however, I recently got an assignment for graduate school--and I feel energized again. (of course this is before I actually have to do real school work--and it's all in theory, but still I'll cling to that excitement about being a student again).
and to explain how I feel about literature--
I was reading something from Oswald Chambers the other day and this phrase struck me, "Men and women have no business to be innocent; God demands that they be pure and virtuous." and I was confused--because isn't innocence and purity the same thing? but then I recalled a character from Dickens' Bleak House...the character is Harold Skimpole--he's always described as childlike and innocent..and yet he has no business being innocent as he impinges on other's goodwill. His innocence is spawned from ignorance rather than an active pursuit of turning away from evil.
Dickens' character clarified a truth. and that is awesome. as is Oswald Chambers.
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Its blog posts like these that make me thankful that I'm in a medically based program. I don't understand all that literature talk!!
Your post reminds me of Romans 16:19 where we are told to be "wise about what is good, and innocent about what is evil." There it seems like innocent means what you say, "an active pursuit of turning away from evil," not just ignorance.
Cool. :)
romans (yeah!) 16 (yeah!) 19 says (yeah yeah!)
be excellent (clap clap)
at what is good
be innocent (clap clap)
of evil
for the god of peace, will soon crush satan.
god will crush him (where?)
underneath your feet! (stomp stomp)
this is a pine cove song. laura reminded me of it. thanks laura.
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