Reading this fantastic book by John Elderidge (well, two books in one, really) Desire and Waking The Dead. Despite the titles sounding maybe a bit like zombie-killing romances (or not, when I think about it) these are incredible Christian books.
The first one, Desire, is about how God places desires in our hearts; deep longings that we either divert into random addictions or dull into apathy. I really don't have words for how much my eyes were opened by just having some of Elderidge's concepts lined up in front of me.
"In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world." John 16.33
There's nothing now but Heaven.
Death is not natural; it was never meant to be.
We live in a far more dramatic, far more dangerous story than we ever imagined... Things are not what they seemed. This is a world at war.
Life is loss and I must grieve regularly so as to give up trying to possess. I will not arrive in the golden place until I am home with God.
...creation... groans for this day, the day when we - the sons and daughters of God - are revealed for who we truly are.
"It was the Unicorn who summed up what everyone was feeling. He stamped his right fore-hoof on the ground and neighed, and then cried: 'I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it 'til now. The reason why we loved the old Narnia is that it sometimes looked a little like this." - The Last Battle, C.S. Lewis
"We may however say to ourselves - one day these souls of ours will blossom into the full sunshine - when all that is desirable in the commoness of daily love, and all we long for of wonder and mystery and the look of Christmas time will be joined in one, and we shall walk as in a wondrous dream yet with more sense of reality than our most waking joy now gives us." - George Macdonald.
“If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it’s not so bad.” – C. S. Lewis
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