"Everything you ever wanted, in a permanent state..." sung Coldplay's Chris Martin, as I dropped my high schooler off this morning.
Was he singing about heaven?
Tapping into a place in me that I don't wear on my sleeve, his words brought me to tears, and I wondered how often I think about what I really want.
Modern life is like a coddling mother, offering instant food and drink, continuous social connection and the promise of the good life through possessions that have not been available to so many people during the whole history of the world. We are perhaps numbed into a state of quasi-contentment.
CS Lewis suggests the following:
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.
For the two minutes it took me to drive back from my daughter's school after I dropped her off, I told God exactly what I wanted.
He listened.
He knew.
And now, so do I.
Tapping into a place in me that I don't wear on my sleeve, his words brought me to tears, and I wondered how often I think about what I really want.
Modern life is like a coddling mother, offering instant food and drink, continuous social connection and the promise of the good life through possessions that have not been available to so many people during the whole history of the world. We are perhaps numbed into a state of quasi-contentment.
CS Lewis suggests the following:
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.
For the two minutes it took me to drive back from my daughter's school after I dropped her off, I told God exactly what I wanted.
He listened.
He knew.
And now, so do I.
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