Gilbert Keith, Happy Birthday
Today (though, by this hour, I suppose it was yesterday), May the 29th, was G.K. Chesterton's birthday. In celebration of such a marvelous man's birthday, I took a few hours to myself and indulged in some of the author's more light-hearted works (though, seeing as it's my tendency to do this most days, I suppose the fact that it's his birthday really had nothing to do with it).
As I made my way through the beginning of "The Man Who Was Thursday" as well as a slew of stories from the "Scandal of Father Brown," I found myself repeatedly distracted by my own thoughts, my own dillusions of grandeur. G.K. Chesterton has had such a marvelous impact on my life and writing that it pains me that I will never get the oppurtunity to properly shake his hand and thank him whilst on this world. Whenever I crack the spine of a new Chesterton book, every minute fiber of my being longs to be exactly like this man who's writing I am most fond of.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton has no idea who I am and he has no idea what an impact he has had on my life in the past year. Chesterton, though I'm sure he was unaware of it, had an impact that has lasted a century. Very similar, in some ways, to Gerhard Groote, Chesterton is a man that is relatively unknown to the public, yet there are so many things accepted as the cultural norm that are directly caused by Chesterton's actions during his life.
Though he died well over 60 years ago, Gilbert Keith Chesterton is still playing a roll in today's world. It is my only wish to be able to have that much impact for the Kingdom. I don't care if anyone ever knows my name, I just want to further the Kingdom of Christ, and I want to do it with a pen in my hand.
Cheers,
L. Mckinley Davis
As I made my way through the beginning of "The Man Who Was Thursday" as well as a slew of stories from the "Scandal of Father Brown," I found myself repeatedly distracted by my own thoughts, my own dillusions of grandeur. G.K. Chesterton has had such a marvelous impact on my life and writing that it pains me that I will never get the oppurtunity to properly shake his hand and thank him whilst on this world. Whenever I crack the spine of a new Chesterton book, every minute fiber of my being longs to be exactly like this man who's writing I am most fond of.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton has no idea who I am and he has no idea what an impact he has had on my life in the past year. Chesterton, though I'm sure he was unaware of it, had an impact that has lasted a century. Very similar, in some ways, to Gerhard Groote, Chesterton is a man that is relatively unknown to the public, yet there are so many things accepted as the cultural norm that are directly caused by Chesterton's actions during his life.
Though he died well over 60 years ago, Gilbert Keith Chesterton is still playing a roll in today's world. It is my only wish to be able to have that much impact for the Kingdom. I don't care if anyone ever knows my name, I just want to further the Kingdom of Christ, and I want to do it with a pen in my hand.
Cheers,
L. Mckinley Davis
posted by L. Mckinley Davis | 10:41 PM
1 Comments:
As it seems you want to be a writer, what are you looking to write?
You've probably heard the quote, "we don't need more Christian books, we need more Christian authors"...so what are you looking into?
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