The Shelter

Excerpts from
http://www.rationalpi.com/theshelter/

If God treats the tree like a tree, the machine like a machine, the man like a man, shouldn't I, as a fellow-creature, do the same -- treating each thing in integrity in its own order? And for the highest reason: because I love God -- I love the One who has made it! Loving the Lover who has made it, I have respect for the thing He has made.

(Francis A. Schaeffer, Pollution and the Death of Man, Ch. 4)

L'abri is French for The Shelter. While living in Switzerland, Francis and Edith Schaeffer decided to open their house to students and travelers for the sake of meaningful conversation concerning the big questions of life and how the Bible dealt with them. They called it L'abri. One's day at L'abri was divided between helping out around the place, studying and conversation.

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