My son is off to college
I told my oldest son the other day that I had put the movie "Bridge over the River Kwai" on hold at the library. And I told him that Obi Wan Kenobi was in the movie. And in all seriousness, he said, You mean Ewan McGregor?
If you don't get it, Alec Guinness is in the "Bridge" made in 1957, he also played Obi in the first Star Wars that came out when I was in college - Ewan MacGregor played Obi in the second set of Star Wars movies. As my older sister said - "There is no reality, just perception.
This is the same son, Jonathan, who we officially dropped off at Cascade College yesterday, August 19th. My wife has only cried four or five times in one day and is feeling the loss quite keenly.
In the parent orientation meeting at the college, I put it this way for me. When Jonathan was 9 months old, we left him with a babysitter so we could go horseback riding. As we left, I looked through the window screen at Jonathan and said "I don't feel good about this". The baby sitter ripped me up one side and down the other and finished with "He will be fine". I looked at her and said, "It's not him I am worried about."
I feel much the same way now and I know that Jonathan can take care of himself. But it is much more than that. He is meeting new people and new ideas. What will be the outcome of these new relationships?
CS Lewis reminds us "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, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. . .
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations-these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit-immortal horrors or everlasting splendors." The Weight of Glory, pg 15.
I met quite a few immortals yesterday, young and old. I pray that my son will meet everlasting splendors and continue to become one himself!
If you don't get it, Alec Guinness is in the "Bridge" made in 1957, he also played Obi in the first Star Wars that came out when I was in college - Ewan MacGregor played Obi in the second set of Star Wars movies. As my older sister said - "There is no reality, just perception.
This is the same son, Jonathan, who we officially dropped off at Cascade College yesterday, August 19th. My wife has only cried four or five times in one day and is feeling the loss quite keenly.
In the parent orientation meeting at the college, I put it this way for me. When Jonathan was 9 months old, we left him with a babysitter so we could go horseback riding. As we left, I looked through the window screen at Jonathan and said "I don't feel good about this". The baby sitter ripped me up one side and down the other and finished with "He will be fine". I looked at her and said, "It's not him I am worried about."
I feel much the same way now and I know that Jonathan can take care of himself. But it is much more than that. He is meeting new people and new ideas. What will be the outcome of these new relationships?
CS Lewis reminds us "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, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. . .
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations-these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit-immortal horrors or everlasting splendors." The Weight of Glory, pg 15.
I met quite a few immortals yesterday, young and old. I pray that my son will meet everlasting splendors and continue to become one himself!
posted by Glen at 8:08 AM
1 Comments:
Well, if Jonathon takes a Bible class--he's mine!!!!! I will have him crying!! Just kidding as you know.
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