The way of imagination

  Text: Psalm 94 1.         UNDERDOG STATUS.      Life’s not fair!   How does this truism strike us?   Do we hear it as a simple fact of life, or does it strike us as being a somewhat cynical statement?   If someone utters this phrase after having experienced some relatively minor setback, such as not getting promoted at work, we will perceive it differently perhaps, from when we think it to ourselves as we watch the news and see images of children sitting on a pile of rubble that used to be their home, with their parents buried underneath.      Indeed, in the early days of World War II, the BBC invited a popular Christian writer (and Oxford lecturer) to give a series of radio talks on Christianity to boost the morale of the British people who were enduring the Blitz of the Luftwaffe (German Air Force).   As he began his series of addresses on “the wireless”, C.S. Lewis invited hi...