Luther and Lewis

Alas, the blessed hope and the heavenly inheritance are all too often forgotten, but the temporal life and the transitory realm on earth are all too much remembered. This transitory life we have unceasingly before our eyes, we think about it and care for it and are happy in it, but we turn our backs toward the everlasting life.—Martin Luther, Sermon, 1531

We are not mere recipients or spectators. We are either privileged to share in the game or compelled to collaborate in the work, ‘to wield our little tridents.’ Is this amazing process simply Creation going on before our eyes? This is how (no light matter) God makes something—indeed, makes gods—out of nothing.—C. S. Lewis, Business of Heaven, p. 287.