Sunday, May 30, 2010

Quote of the Day (C.S. Lewis, on His “Only Real Treasure”)


"I am progressing along the path of life in my ordinary contentedly fallen and godless condition, absorbed in a merry meeting with friends for the morrow or a bit of work that tickles my vanity today, a holiday or a new book, when suddenly a stab of abdominal pain that threatens serious disease, or a headline in the newspapers that threaten us all with destruction, sends this whole pack of cards tumbling down. At first I am overwhelmed, and all my little happinesses look like broken toys. Then, slowly and reluctantly, bit by bit, I try to bring myself into the frame of mine that I should be in at all times. I remind myself that all these toys were never intended to possess my heart, that my only real treasure is in Christ."—C.S. Lewis, The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings From C.S. Lewis (1984)

(Thanks to my friend Steve for the inspiration)

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