GC Debrief – There Will Always Be An America

Brother Giraud-Carrier quoted C.S. Lewis in the Weight of Glory.

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilization—these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat.

The shallow understanding of this is that therefore those things–nations, cultures, arts, civilization–don’t matter.  The true understanding is that they do matter, because they matter to you.

There will always be an America because there will always be Americans.

What a wonderful truth.  If you hold on to your divine family, in turn everything you hold on to will last forever.  The formal sealing power is ultimately just a recognition of who and what you love.

I have a beautiful vision of our nations and their peculiarities being the way they are, be it America or some shantytown in the third world, because the incomparable bright angel who guides that nation remembers far off his childhood when he was a mortal with fast cars on the open road, or happy kids playing at football between the shacks.