from: "Worship in Every Direction", the newest mars hill music release

- the thing i mean can be seen, for instance, in children. when they find some game or joke that they specially enjoy, a child kicks his legs thru excess, not absence of life, because children have abounding vitality because they are in spirit fierce and free. therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. they always say 'do it again!'...and the grownup person does it again until he is nearly dead. for grownup people are not strong enough to exalt in monotany.
but perhaps God is strong enough to exalt in monotany. it is possible that God says every morning 'do it again!' to the sun, and every evening, 'do it again!' to the moon. it may not be automatic neccessity that makes all daisy's alike - it may be that God makes every daisy seperately, but has never got tired of making them. it may be that he has the eternal appetite of infancy - for we have sinned and grown old, and our father is younger than we.

-- "Orthodoxy" by G.K. Chesterton

Dirt

"how can i stand on the ground every day and not feel its power?
how can i live my life stepping on this stuff and not wonder at it...
we spend our lives hurrying away from the real, as though it were deadly to us.
'it must be somewhere up there on the horizon,' we think.
and all the time it is in the soil right beneath our feet."
--william b. logan