If you were extremely wealthy, you
could try to see everything. You could hop into a car and zoom across the United
States, stopping in major cities and seeing the famous sites. You could pay a
cabbie to wait for you while you hurried to the top of the Empire State Building
for a quick look. Then you'd hop back in the cab and say, "To the Statue of
Liberty, and step on it!"
You could bounce along the south
rim of the Grand Canyon, stopping for a few moments at each viewing point before
heading for Monument Valley. You could drive across the Golden Gate Bridge,
snapping pictures and reading a brochure that tells you how many people have
jumped off the bridge and how hard it is to keep it painted. You could move to
Washington, D.C., and spend a year going through the Smithsonian Institute,
taking notes and pictures of everything as you strolled through the buildings.
You could do these sorts of things
for years and years, checking off each famous site in a little notebook before
hopping a train to the next exciting destination. Eventually your notebook would
be thick and full of notations that no one, including you, would ever read...
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