Chesterton

       1. I think that here Chesterton is saying that the universe is not monotonous and boring where everything has an explanation as most modern thinkers believe, but on the contrary, the universe is monotonous because God is strong enough to love repetition, while we are too weak, though we think we are mature. He is also saying that life is not something to be taken as granted, but something that we should be thankful for. We should be thankful for everything in life.

       2. The fact that God says every day to the sun when it sets and rises, "Do it again," is something very significant in out understanding of science. We believe that when we age we get more mature, however, this shows that when we no longer enjoy monotony, we are not more mature, but it is a sign of our brokenness. It also shows that the sun is not obligated to rise and set on its own, but that God is the driving force behind it, and if he doesn't want the sun to rise, it won't.

       3. I understand the statement that God is younger than we, and we have grown old in our sin is completely accurate to our lives. I think we have set artificial standards in our sinfulness of what it means to be mature, but when we are children, and we have no knowledge of these artificial boundaries, we can find joy in monotony just like God does, so in a sense he is younger in his spirit than us.

       4. Chesterton's view of the world is a point of view that I have never really thought about. It is so easy to slip into the worldview of our society today and say that there are no supernatural forces, and that everything happens according to its own will. I never thought about the fact that God every day repeats the same functions and never tires of it. If we all trained ourselves to think like Chesterton does, I think we would all be much more grateful for every day, and all the blessings in life.