(Wednesday) I got home this afternoon after two-and-a-half days in Chicago. Last night was a bit of an adventure. After our meeting I got to the hotel they had booked for me at about 8:30 p.m. And the hotel people couldn't find a reservation for me. And they wanted to charge me $179 (plus $$$ tax) for the night (not that I'm paying for any of this personally -- the Evangelical Covenant Church is footing the bill and they had made the reservation using hotwire and got the room for about $80). Anyway, I left and went next door to the Holiday Inn O'Hare and paid only $109 (plus $$$ tax). If it hadn't been that I was already wiped out, carrying all my luggage, and in need of an airport shuttle in the morning I would have walked the 8/10 of a mile to the Motel 6 and paid $45/night. The lesson: Handle your own reservations.
I did get some good reading done on the planes. I re-read my favorite C.S Lewis book The Great Divorce. The thing that strikes me about this book is that it could have been written today instead of 1945. There are references to secularization and what we now call postmodern thought. The struggles that people have with accepting grace are no different. I suppose that's what makes it a classic.
A quote to whet your appetite:
...There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done." All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. 'Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.'" p. 75
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