Disenchantment

Woodsworth in his poem “Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” describes his love for nature and the mystical spirituality it provides for his life. He then goes to France and sees the beginnings of the French Revolution. He becomes disenchanted with life, but then he returns home to see the beautiful sight he knew so well. He tried to get back the spiritual experience nature brought him in the past. He presents a hope even in the presence of doubt.

Parallel to this is I Corinthians 13:11:
“When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child. I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.”

I watched a Martin Luther movie as I blogged about yesterday. The prince who was in Martin Luther’s region repeated this same verse in reference to his worship of relics, which Martin Luther was preaching against. The prince was innocent before when he was worshipping the relics. He was going along with what the Church expected of him. Then Martin Luther disenchanted him and he analyzed the situation. And came to a greater innocence by putting the relics away. He no longer wanted to worship the relics, but still was apart of the Church. He questioned his faith and then came to a deeper faith by his analysis of it.