Chapter 62You Can Live Twice
Sir Christopher Wren lived in the seventeenth
century.
In fact, he lived TWICE in the seventeenth
century I
His first life consisted of growing up, getting
a good education and being a professor of astronomy at
Gresham College and Oxford. That first life lasted forty-
eight years. Then he decided "he had done that" and there
wasn't any particular point in continued repetition.
So he decided he would live a new and entirely
different life. He decided that instead of being an astron-
omer and just looking at a distant heaven, he would bring
Heaven down to earth by building beautiful churches and
majestic cathedrals.
After his first life of forty-eight years as a schol-
ar and teacher, Sir Christopher Wren devoted a second
life of forty-one years to building fifty-three churches and
cathedrals of such beauty a.nd grandeur that they stand