{"id":2542,"date":"2010-02-23T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T13:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drslewis.org\/camille\/?p=2542"},"modified":"2010-02-23T08:00:55","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T13:00:55","slug":"a-time-to-feast-on-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drslewis.org\/camille\/2010\/02\/23\/a-time-to-feast-on-grace\/","title":{"rendered":"A Time to Feast on Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>There, then, is the role of the amateur: to look the world back to grace. There, too, is the necessity of his work: His tribe must be in short supply; his job has gone begging. The world looks as if it has been left in the custody of a pack of trolls. Indeed, the whole distinction between art and trash, between food and garbage, depends on the presences or absence of the loving eye. Turn a statue over to a boor, and his boredom will break it to bits&#8211;witness the ruined monuments of antiquity. On the other hand, turn a shack over to a lover; for all its poverty, its lights and shadows warm a little, and its numbed surfaces prickle with feeling.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t it amazing how God loves us when a pack of trolls were bored to tears with us and let us fall into disrepair?<\/p>\n<p>I rediscovered this little song recently by Mr. Rogers, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/pbskids.org\/rogers\/songLyricsItsYouILike.html\" target=\"_blank\">It&#8217;s You I Like<\/a>.&#8221; Remember it? If we can put aside the Gen-X visceral gag reflex we have to all children&#8217;s programming, this is one <em>beautiful <\/em>song. 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