Friday, January 25, 2013

Prepare For the Fire

"RELIGIOUS and philosophical beliefs are, indeed, as dangerous as fire, and nothing can take from them that beauty of danger. But there is only one way of really guarding ourselves against the excessive danger of them, and that is to be steeped in philosophy and soaked in religion." -~G.K. Chesterton (Orthodoxy) This quote from
Chesterton gives the clue for our need to have an advance mentality, and a preparedness that accepts that fire is a part of our landscape in more ways than the volatility and seasonality of Australian days of summer: -