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The Story Of Eric Liddell

The Story Of Eric Liddell

If you don’t know the story of Eric Liddell, check it out ASAP.

I think it is a fantastic case of knowing exactly who you are and exactly what you want out of this short life.

Of course, his story was popularized in the classic film, Chariots Of Fire.

Watch, watch.

In the northern Chinese city then known as Tientsin (now Tianjin), a Scottish missionary mulls over the ever-spreading gossip: people say the occupying army of Japan will soon round up all foreign nationals in the city and place them in an internment camp. He realizes that he has already missed his chance to return to the West, to his wife and daughters, then living in Toronto. This Scotsman had been born in Tientsin in 1902 and had returned there to serve after being educated in England and Scotland, and after having won a gold medal at the 1924 Paris Olympics in the 400-meter run and a bronze in the 200 meters. His name is Eric Liddell, and in March he will be taken to the Weihsien internment camp, and will die there, of a brain tumor, in February 1945.

-Alan Jacobs, The Year Of Our Lord 1943 (Amazon)

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Do We Desire Heaven?

Do We Desire Heaven?

We certainly don’t act as if we desire heaven, do we?

I mean, the envy and greed and gossip and pride that spring forth from our lips and hearts without the least bit of encouragement tells the story.

It is a story we tell by our actions.

However, it may also be likely that when we lay our heads on our pillows at night and close our eyes – our hearts disagree.

Or at least I hope they do.

I think it natural – and human – for us to wish for more than just “this.”

There have been times when I think we do not desire heaven; but more often I find myself wondering whether, in our heart of hearts, we have ever desired anything else. You may have noticed that the books you really love are bound together by a secret thread. You know very well what is the common quality that makes you love them, though you cannot put it into words: but most of your friends do not see it at all, and often wonder why, liking this, you should also like that.

-C.S. Lewis, The Problem Of Pain (Amazon)

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