Surmounting all is an intuitive feeling about the immanent nature of reality.

I think that Weaver is saying that this sentiment answers the question of how reality is immanent.

Do you think I’m right?

I have been reading some of George MacDonald‘s short stories. If I could ever get to the place where I wrote stories that well, I would be very pleased, and surprised.

I often wonder, when I read these things, how much I am missing. I understand them a whole deal better, it seems to me, than the last time I made some forays into MacDonald. It reminds me that after reading so much Weaver, since at last beginning to understand the first page of the first chapter of Ideas, as Bauder was quick to point out, I have to read the whole again.

And what of Scripture? Even if there is no end to the making of new books, is there any end to the reading of old books? Blessed be God who giveth us books in abundance.

I have also started reading MacDonald’s Unspoken Sermons at work, when things get slow. Now here is essential Christianity, again. These are like Tozer’s sermons. They kindle a desire for holy things. Here is a particularly luminous passage from the Second Series, if you are interested:

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