Thursday, July 31, 2008

Pleasures in Life.... and waiting

P Yancey says:
CS Lewis saw the world as a place worth saving. Unlike the monastics of the Middle Ages and the legalists of modern times, he saw no need to withdraw and deny all pleasures. He loved a stiff drink, a puff on the pipe, a gathering of friends, a Wagnerian opera, a hike in the fields of Oxford. The pleasures in life are indeed good, just not good enough; they are:

"only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited."

RP: So true. And sometimes the struggle of faith is to wait and hope for the Day when God shall bring us to that place where we find the flower, hear the tune, and arrive in that country

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