{"id":73,"date":"2009-06-08T21:59:23","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T01:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.computermeasurement.com\/dans\/?p=73"},"modified":"2011-02-01T13:44:20","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T18:44:20","slug":"the-weight-of-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.computermeasurement.com\/dans\/2009\/06\/the-weight-of-glory\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weight of Glory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Comic Sans MS;\">Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Comic Sans MS;\"> It may be possible for each of us to think too much of his own potential glory hereafter; it is hardly possible for him to think too often or too deeply about that of his neighbour.\u00a0 The load, or weight, or burden, of my neighbour&#8217;s glory should be laid daily on my back, a load so heavy that only humility can carry it, and the backs of the proud will be broken.\u00a0 It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship &#8212; or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only\u00a0 in a nightmare.\u00a0 All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other of these destinations.\u00a0 It is in the\u00a0 light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct\u00a0 all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics.\u00a0 There are no ordinary people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Comic Sans MS;\"> <em>&#8230; C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), &#8220;The Weight of Glory&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Comic Sans MS;\"><em>[print_link]<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945 It may be possible for each of us to think too much of his own potential glory hereafter; it is hardly possible for him to think too often or too deeply about that of his neighbour.\u00a0 The load, or weight, or burden, of my neighbour&#8217;s glory should be&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.computermeasurement.com\/dans\/2009\/06\/the-weight-of-glory\/\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15,27],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-lewis","tag-quotes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computermeasurement.com\/dans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computermeasurement.com\/dans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computermeasurement.com\/dans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computermeasurement.com\/dans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computermeasurement.com\/dans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.computermeasurement.com\/dans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"https:\/\/www.computermeasurement.com\/dans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computermeasurement.com\/dans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computermeasurement.com\/dans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computermeasurement.com\/dans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}