Beautiful writing, Laurence. Thanks for this. I have my own personal anthology of images from films seen in childhood that I probably shouldn't have seen.
I love this, we are visual creatures. There is a hymn that is taught to children, but that is no less relevant to adults: “Oh, be careful little eyes, what you see, there’s a father up above looking down in tender love, Oh, be careful little eyes, what you see.” It may sound prudish, but it is rather founded in Jesus’ teaching in Matthew 6:22-23 to guard your eyes, to keep them healthy for the eye is the lamp of the body and if your eye is not healthy then your whole body will be full of darkness.
And we're a culture awash in imagery, with very few voices of constraint in the mainstream about what should or should not be seen. The notion that one should cultivate the use of that lamp carefully is an important one, and it's why I go back to Murnane over and over, as it is he, whether still practising faith or not, who seems to take sight more seriously than almost any of his contemporaries.
Beautiful writing, Laurence. Thanks for this. I have my own personal anthology of images from films seen in childhood that I probably shouldn't have seen.
I love this, we are visual creatures. There is a hymn that is taught to children, but that is no less relevant to adults: “Oh, be careful little eyes, what you see, there’s a father up above looking down in tender love, Oh, be careful little eyes, what you see.” It may sound prudish, but it is rather founded in Jesus’ teaching in Matthew 6:22-23 to guard your eyes, to keep them healthy for the eye is the lamp of the body and if your eye is not healthy then your whole body will be full of darkness.
And we're a culture awash in imagery, with very few voices of constraint in the mainstream about what should or should not be seen. The notion that one should cultivate the use of that lamp carefully is an important one, and it's why I go back to Murnane over and over, as it is he, whether still practising faith or not, who seems to take sight more seriously than almost any of his contemporaries.