The Sunset Wavelet: Life's Contrasting Views
Maclaren opens with a luminous image: a sunset at sea where each wavelet catching the western light blazes with fiery gold, while its far side...
This is historical examples on mortality and transcendence and youthful accountability, drawing on Isaiah 40:30-31.
Maclaren opens with a luminous image: a sunset at sea where each wavelet catching the western light blazes with fiery gold, while its far side turned eastward glows cold green. Thus life appears utterly different to the young than to the aged—one face glory, the other sober melancholy. No sermon or talking will transfer this vision between generations; each soul must purchase experience for itself.…
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