"C.S. Lewis, in his second letter to me at Oxford, asked how it was that I, as a product of a materialistic universe, was not at home there. 'Do fish complain of the sea for being wet? Or if they did, would that fact itself not strongly suggest that they had not always been, or wd. not always be, purely aquatic creatures?' Then, if we complain of time and take such joy in the seemingly timeless moment, what does that suggest? It suggests that we have not always been or will not always be purely temporal creatures. It suggests that we were created for eternity."
Sheldon Vanauken (from A Severe Mercy)
Something to think about. As Vanauken also write, this is proof or at least a powerful suggestion that eternity exists and is our home.
We were created for another world.
Think about this daily as you live in a world that is not your own. What are you called to do? Who are you called to be? How are you called to live? What is our duty in this, a foreign land?
1 comment:
so true. and if only we stepped back to realize the magnificent glories we are so privileged to take part in. if we saw each day as a series of small victories and every trial as a hill upon which to stand so that we could see the whole picture...if we lived for each day, this world would be different.
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