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)