Fern Seed & Elephants

I have been reading CS Lewis’ “Fern Seeds and Elephants”, which is a collection of talks he gave, mainly to university students. One of the topics was on the second coming. It was titled “The World’s Last Night” (or something like that). It made me think about what I have been doing, both for myself and for kiddo and Theresa. When I flipped to the front of the book, I noticed I had bought this book in December 1986. I was only 21 then. I first read this book 21 years ago. My age has doubled since then, and I’m still grappling with the issue of playing the part God has written for me. What is that part? Earlier in the book, another topic Lewis touched on was the role of individuals as opposed to the collective. The issue was which was Christianity’s focus? He suggested (I think) that an individual finds true meaning only when he allows God to take over and put him in that place reserved for him the collective body. So the role I play in this drama of life, is that which God has set aside for me. How do I discover that? Somewhere else in that book there was also a hint that this is to simply do what He has placed in front of us, faithfully and diligently. A bit like my favourite verse in Ecclesiastes 8:15, I guess.