My man, C.S.

I have decided that C.S. Lewis is really smart... probably one of the smartest I know of. He knows exactly how to put things in a way that most people can readily understand. If I can use the same amount of brain power in my life that that man did in 40 years, I think I may consider myself accomplished. Here is something from his book, Mere Christianity, that is lovely to chew on:

"When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less. A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right. THis is common sense, really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are sleeping. You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your mind is working properly: while you are making them you cannot see them. You can understand the nature of drunkenness when you are sober, not when you are drunk. Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either."

The beginning

I have been getting into reading the Bible more these days. I've decided to dig a little deeper than usual and started looking up the references along the side of my Bible. This is my new version of Genesis 1:1-

"In the beginning was the word an the word was with God and the word was God. Jesus was in the beginning with God. Everything was made through him and without him, there was and is no possibility of anything being created. God created the heavens and the earth. He made the world and everything in it. He is the Lord of Heaven and earth and he does not dwell in temples made with hands. He has said that heaven is my throne and earth is my footstool, what house will you build for me? Or what place of my rest? Has my hand not made all things?
He does not dwell in temples nor is he worshipped with man's hands, as though he needed anything, since he gives to all life and breath, and all things.
For the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living being. He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their pre-appointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings.
All the inhabitants of the earth are nothing; he does according to his will in the army of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth. No one can restrain his hand or say to him "what have you done?"
God says "I am a God near at hand and not a God far off. Can anyone hide himself in secret places so I shall not see him? Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?"
So, we are to seek God in the hope that we might grope for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.
For in him we live and move and have our being."

This is only Genesis 1:1. Looks like I have a lot more left to go. This is just the beginning.