to be frank

'In everything, give thanks'.

Last week I found another superb quotation from the wonderful G K Chesterton. It sits beautifully with a feeling I have had during my summer holidays. It's all about gratitude: being thankful for so much that we have.
Here's the quote:
When if comes to life, the critical thing is whether we take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

A rational world?

We all try to make sense of the world. It's natural that we do. It's what makes us human: to apply some kind of rational thinking to the way we live and act. We try to make order amidst the chaos of things, emotions, experiences.
Implicit in all that is an assumption: that in fact there is an order, there is a rationality, at the heart of things. Or at least there should be! And if there isn't one, we try to impose it.
During the break, I found this quotation (source not identified, other than its author, the wonderful G K Chesterton):
Life, Chesterton said, is 'a trap for logicians'. It seems like things are sensible and orderly, and so we hope to find and live by the pattern in things. But in fact it is much more complex than that. 'It looks a little more mathematical and regular than it is; its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden; its wildness lies in wait.'