Friday, August 3, 2012

Tom Parkhurst

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Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires, not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go o
n making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased. C. S. Lewis The Weight of Glory "Something awful has happened. Something terrible. Something worse even than the fall of man. For in that greatest of all tragedies, we merely lost Paradise -- and with it everything that made life worth living. What has happened since is unthinkable: we gotten used to it. We're broken in to the idea that this is just the way things are. The people who walk in great darkness have adjusted their eyes." Eldredge, The Journey of Desire p9

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