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The Weight of Glory

In his essay “The Weight of Glory” the Christian author C.S. Lewis talks about glory and weight, and not only their presence in the divine, but also in us! We are all immortals, he reminds us. “There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.” We ought to be thankful that our glory is hidden from us most of the time, because if it were revealed, we might fall down in worship of the glory that each of us reflects from its source in the divine light in Jesus.

A more proper response, Lewis suggests, is that we treat each other as creatures of weight and substance. “The load, or weight, or burden of my neighbor’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.”

 
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