OUR GLORY OR GOD’S GLORY
If you crawl under a choir stall of many Gothic Cathedrals, you will find carved there four letters: “AMDG.” You may find the same four letters etched onto the cathedral’s stained glass, stitched on its vestment and altar cloths, and hewn into cathedral stone. You will not find the name of the artist there; only those four letters: “AMDG.” The letters stand for “Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam”: To the Honor and Glory of God. Despite the difficulty of their creative tasks–since they were all done by hand, a man could spend an entire lifetime carving the decorations for one tower, or carving and joining the woodwork of a chapel–the artist asked no recognition. Their grand creations stand, but their names are unknown. Every chisel stroke, every pass of the plane, every stitch of the cloth, was a prayer, offered wholly to the honor and glory of God. Probably no work you and I do in our lives will be…
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