Grundy's Blog

Carpe Diem Robin Williams’ suicide hit me hard. Not exactly sure why. Perhaps it’s because I know something about depression and how it can grip you like nothing else. Perhaps it’s because I wish someone had shared the hope that Jesus offers with Williams. Perhaps it’s because I always wanted to be like Mr. Keating in Dead Poet’s Society , impassioning students to find their own verse in this thing we call life. Most of us never had heard the term carpe diem until Williams’ Mr. Keating told us that we will all be worm food one day, and that we must seize every day like it is our last. But what does this mean to the Christian? What does carpe diem look like? I find myself torn again and again between the world’s hedonistic cry to live life to the fullest and the Christian worldview of being a humble Christ-like servant. The secular worldview of seizing the day is arguably defined by following the Greek gods of Mammon (money), Mars (power), and Aphrodite (sex). These seducti