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31 CUSTOM-MADE, MASTER-CRAFTED Psalm 139:13-18 On June 19, Ann will have been my marriage par tner for 70 years. As we carry on life's pilgrimage, we try to be aware of God's goodness with every passing day. How much longer our pleasant ear thly togetherness will last, who can predict? As the psalmist reminds us, "Our times are in His hands" (Psalm 31:15). Where else would we prefer to have them? Isn't it a blessing that we don't have to be scholars in order to appreciate the insights of C. S. Lewis, probably the most often quoted of any Christian author in recent years? It is he who reminds us that we aren't boringly the same like peas in a pod. Not in the least! No, Lewis insightfully reminds us, we aren't! Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you. The mold in which a key is made would be a strange thing if you had never seen a key: and the key itself a strange thing if you had never seen a lock. Your soul has a curious shape because it is a hollow made to fit a par ticular swelling in the infinite contours of the divine substance, or a key to unlock one of the doors in the house with many mansions. For it is not humanity in the abstract that is to be saved, but you—you the individual reader, John Stubbs or Janet Smith [or whoever you are reading these words]. But that isn't all Lewis has to say about our God-bestowed individuality. He adds: Blessed and for tunate creature, your eyes shall behold Him. . . . Your place in heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it—made for it stitch by stitch as a glove is made for a hand. Read that again and remember, you and I are like snowflakes with no duplicates in all the drifts that fall in winter or may fall out of heaven in the future. Let's rejoice, then, that you and I, and every human being, are individually the objects of Christ's redeeming grace. -VCG, 2008 DECEMBER 24