Tuesday, September 10, 2002

As for today one lesson stands out to me that bears significant importance of all things good and evil. The very universe is made up of these and would be nothing without them. Ok, a bit of overdramatization but here goes. In creative writting class we have recently been discussing the importance of simple concrete detail in poetry. It is essential to developing the image that we see when we read the poem. It is essential to any meaning we may read into a poem. An d of course I had to look for the life applications of such a thought, and it works really cool. Life is simply the little details that add up to make the whole story. Every little bit has importance. There is rarely (at least in my experience) a major event or events that our life revolves around. It is constantly changing and so are we, depending on how we react to these simple details. Like C.S. Lewis said we are all constantly making each other more angelic or demonic through every action (very paraphrased). what we do with every oppurtunity we are confrinted with is our choice. Everytime I back down to a fear I become more of a coward and so on. Just a thought. Oh yeah, also I would love to see a book about christian wisdom on how to live written into a fiction book or maybe told though the story of someone's own life. Buechner is the only one I know of who has done it and I really haven't read much of his stuff. Tired and now I will sleep.

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