keeps me sharp

"I believe in Christianity as I believe the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but that I see everything by it"- C.S. Lewis.

Brilliant.

I'm in the middle of exams, and I am noticing something that I find fascinating. In all my classes- Ref Theo, Human Sexuality, Creative writing, Tolkien and Lewis, even Enviro 101-- the "christian myth" plays out.
I didn't say this was groundbreaking.
I simply said it was fascinating.
Of course, this is what a Christian university sets out to do, but it has only just begun to sink in that it's working. I am convinced.
I can hardly read anything anymore (let alone James' evolution textbook) without seeing God's fingerprints. He's in everything I read- whether the author is Christian, Jewish, or Atheist.
Lewis says,
"[God is] basic Fact or Actuality, the most concrete thing there is...too definite for the unavoidable vagueness of language and the source of all other facthood"

I find this a refreshing reminder when education tries to get the upper hand in the "fact" department. I also find it particularly helpful in an environment where subjectivity swirls around campus like it owns the place.

The truth is that there is a reality that goes beyond all predicate, a doctrine of objective value.
This is what governs our instincts, what provides the basis for our approval or disapproval of whatever it is we approve or disapprove of in the classroom.
It all points to an objective order, a Creator that has designed this world, a God who goes far above and beyond us and our limited faculties.

It amazes me that despite the diversity of topics my classes deal with, not one of these are exempt from that focal point of the gospel story. It is all-pervasive. It is the stone that sharpens my mind, keeps me alert, makes me ever aware of the story I am living in.

And now I should study.