Musings: Notes From My Daybook

Will and I are in Wilmore, Kentucky for a couple of days. We arrived yesterday evening and were able to meet dear friends--the Bushes (Doug, Alice, Meredith) for dinner. Then on to Asbury College--the purpose of our trip. Will is considering Asbury as a possible distination as he finishes high school.

It is always inspiring to be on a college campus and Asbury is no different. And the memories went flooding through my mind. As I dropped off Will at Trustee Hall I suddenly realized that he was about to get inevitable introduction to college life that sets up all kinds of memories--the men's dorms! I also realized that I have many stories about dorm life that I must still keep at bay. I'm afraid that if I told him now it would only encourage what comes most naturally.

Presently, I am pleasantly sitting in the library at Asbury Theological Seminary, enjoying the smell of books and the pleasure of sun streaming onto the sturdy wooden tables that every library should have.

Asbury recently received a Lilly Endowment grant to explore the integration of faith and learning. It is the same sort of grant that Pepperdine University received and is using to explore the notion of vocation.

So in light of that, I close with a quote from C. S. Lewis (Learning in War-Time)where Lewis remarks about work as seen in light of our faith:
"All of our activities will be accepted, if they are offered to God, even the humblest; and all of them, even the noblest, will be sinful if they are not. . . . The work of a Beethoven and the work of a charwoman becomes spiritual on precisely the same condition, that of being offered to God, of being done humbly 'as to the Lord.' This does not, of course, mean that it is for anyone a mere toss-up whether he should sweep rooms or compose symphonies. A mole must dig to the glory of God, and a cock must crow. We are member of one body, but differentiated members, each with his own vocation."

. . . . whatever you do, do to the glory of God!