Ugens ord er "motor"

MOTOR

Når jeg hører ordet "motor", så tænker jeg straks på en god, gammeldags forbrændingsmotor som man finder i fx en bil, men ordet kan også bruges mere generelt om en drivende kraft bag en aktivitet: "Hun er firmaets motor, når det drejer sig om innovation".

Også hjertet kan kaldes en motor: Hjertet er kroppens motor, der pumper blod ud til kroppen og forsyner vores organer med ilt og næringsstoffer.

Og hvis vi ser ikke bare på hjertet, men på livet in toto, så kan man også godt tale om mennesket som en motor:

Men hvad kan vi bruge motoren til, hvis vi ikke har brændstof? Brændstoffet er en forudsætning for drift, for fremdrift, for at vi når derhen, hvor det er meningen, at vores færd skal ende. For nu at blive i allegorien, så kan vi sige, at:

God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on.

Citatet er af C.S. Lewis, kendt ikke mindst for Narnia-fortællingerne.

Herunder et klip et hjemmesiden https://www.cslewis.com/us/:

Clive Staples Lewis (1898–1963) was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably one of the most influential writers of his day. He was a Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Oxford University until 1954, when he was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University, a position he held until his retirement.
Lewis wrote more than thirty books, allowing him to reach a vast audience, and his works continue to attract thousands of new readers every year. C. S. Lewis's most distinguished and popular accomplishments include Mere Christianity, Out of the Silent Planet, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, and the universally acknowledged classics in The Chronicles of Narnia. To date, the Narnia books have sold over 100 million copies and been transformed into three major motion pictures.