Lives In Contrast

Is There A Life Lesson Here?

Published on February 16, 2007 By KFC Kickin For Christ In History

I love to discover new truths. That's my thing I guess. Everyday I look for something I didn't know yesterday but it has to be true. I make it into a game sorta. Well anyway I found out something new today I didn't know. I wanted to check here at JU to see who knew this.

I found out that Abe Lincoln and Charles Darwin were both born on the same day, February 12, 1809. Did you know that?

So I was thinking. Isn't this interesting? Abe believed that all men were created equal by God himself and Charles believed that no man was created at all; forget about a God being involved.

Then I thought of other strange pairings, and I could only think of a couple so far. I thought about Princess Diana dying the same time as Mother Teresa in 1997. Two totally different women. One was in and of the world and the other gave her life for the world.

The other strange pairing I thought of was John F. Kennedy and C.S. Lewis both dying on the same day in 1963. If it wasn't for President Kennedy, Lewis would have been the top news but I'm thinking it was exactly as he would have wanted. John was a womanizer and handsome and again a man of the nation holding the keys to the world in his hand on the day he died.

Lewis, on the other hand, a brilliant thinker and classical writer who still holds our children spellbound even today with his literature was nothing to behold physically and married quite late in life living a quiet life of obscurity. He was very faithful to his wife Joy caring for her totally during her battle with a terminal illness.

I was just wondering if there was a life lesson here to be found. What do you think? Can you think of any other pairings that are forever linked either by birth or death?

Comments

Shovelheat

on Feb 16, 2007

The other strange pairing I thought of was John F. Kennedy and C.S. Lewis both dying on the same day in 1963

I did not know that. Interesting! The Great Divorce is one of my all time favorite books (or at least in the top ten or twenty)

KFC Kickin For Christ

on Feb 16, 2007

Did you know the first one with Abe and Charles? That just blew my mind today.

Shovelheat

on Feb 16, 2007

Did you know the first one with Abe and Charles? That just blew my mind today.

no I did not -and both presidents were assasinated too...

DrDonald

on Feb 17, 2007

The Great Divorce

- interesting, I'll have to look into that one. I loved "Out of the Silent Planet | Perelandra | That Hideous Strength". Lewis had such a passionate sense of good and evil.

The human spirit is capable of such diversity that juxtaposed fame will likely always seem quirky, anomalous and dissonant.

EmperorofIceCream

on Feb 27, 2007

And exactly what life lesson do you think might be found in the coincidental deaths of otherwise entirely different men?

The fact that we all die, perhaps? If so it's not much of a lesson. And why, precisely, did this utterly unimportant juxtaposition of births strike you so profoundly?

KFC Kickin For Christ

on Feb 28, 2007

And exactly what life lesson do you think might be found in the coincidental deaths of otherwise entirely different men?The fact that we all die, perhaps?

Well in the case of Lincoln and Darwin they were connected by birth, not death. One defended the truths found in scripture, one mocked it. One believed in God and one did not. One believed in creation, and the equality afforded to all and one did not.

I believe that God puts into our lives both individually and corporately those that will show us the way. There are those that encourage us and lead us to God and those that lead us away from God. In these instances I see two decisions, two paths and two destinies.

God is good. He more than gives us what we need. Someday when we stand before him, we will stand there without an excuse for the path we chose.

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