Oh, but I do love this thought from G.K. Chesterton, which I shared five years ago today, so maybe that is long enough ago that it will be fresh for some of you, as it is for me. WordPress has started doing this thing to keep us on the site longer, where they show us a list of titles of our past blog posts, what we have posted on this day in years past, with links to click through and read. It is sometimes surprising, and/or pleasingly nostalgic, to fall into these little traps, though I think G.K. would say, “Those are not the sort of traps I was thinking of!” 

“His soul will never starve for exploits or excitements who is wise enough to be made a fool of. He will make himself happy in the traps that have been laid for him; he will roll in their nets and sleep. All doors will fly open to him who has a mildness more defiant than mere courage… [He] will always be ‘taken in.’ To be taken in everywhere is to see the inside of everything. It is the hospitality of circumstance. With torches and trumpets, like a guest, the greenhorn is taken in by Life. And the sceptic is cast out by it.”

G.K. Chesterton, in Charles Dickens