Hey Ragan, your story and initial image immediately made me think of that classical quote of C. S. Lewis, for everyone:
"It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too wetak. 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 on 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."
And then further down I thought of Dr Augusto Cury, once an atheist psychiatrist, now a follower of the Master. He made a study of the words of Christ and then went on to write a profound little book called "Think and make it happen" that basically confirm what you're saying about how we can grow to be like Jesus, becoming a glorious imitation of Him, in this lost, God forsaken world.
Thank you for letting me an ordinary, aspiring writer comment here; so many others do not give their readers a chance to give feedback. Bless you.
Thanks for this, Nicolouw! Great to have a reader in South Africa. I appreciate both references you offer here. I'm unfamiliar with Augusto Cury, so I'll have to check out his work. Lewis, of course, is always a wise read.
Ha! No, but you get started making real pies by beginning with the mud ones; we start being like Christ by imitating him as children. I hope that makes sense.
Hey Ragan, your story and initial image immediately made me think of that classical quote of C. S. Lewis, for everyone:
"It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too wetak. 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 on 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."
And then further down I thought of Dr Augusto Cury, once an atheist psychiatrist, now a follower of the Master. He made a study of the words of Christ and then went on to write a profound little book called "Think and make it happen" that basically confirm what you're saying about how we can grow to be like Jesus, becoming a glorious imitation of Him, in this lost, God forsaken world.
Thank you for letting me an ordinary, aspiring writer comment here; so many others do not give their readers a chance to give feedback. Bless you.
Nicolouw
South Africa
Thanks for this, Nicolouw! Great to have a reader in South Africa. I appreciate both references you offer here. I'm unfamiliar with Augusto Cury, so I'll have to check out his work. Lewis, of course, is always a wise read.
Am I mud pie?
Ha! No, but you get started making real pies by beginning with the mud ones; we start being like Christ by imitating him as children. I hope that makes sense.