Sterling Terrell

recovering economist

Only A Preamble?

Only A Preamble?

Again, is this why I often feel so restless?

Andrew Peterson wrote of this longing in, I think, a profound way in his book Adorning The Dark.

But you will have to be patient. I haven’t got to blogging about that book quite yet…

There is so much left to do in this life, I feel like I have only begun.

I wonder if my grandfather at 92 somehow felt it was all only a preamble?

The security we crave would teach us to rest our hearts in this world and oppose an obstacle to our return to God: a few moments of happy love, a landscape, a symphony, a merry meeting with our friends, a bathe or a football match, have no such tendency. Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home.

-C.S. Lewis, The Problem Of Pain (Amazon)

Happiness And Security

Happiness And Security

Is true happiness and security even meant for this world?

Good-grief, I don’t even know.

Maybe this is all part of why nothing that we seek brings us a feeling of lasting happiness and security.

You chase a new house, a new car, or job, or whatever, and what you thought would make you happy slowly fades.

I guess money and status can bring a certain kind of security.

But isn’t that temporary too?

Thank goodness for the small daily pleasures of friends and family.

For the longing and restlessness I sometimes feel would be too great without them.

The settled happiness and security which we all desire, God withholds from us by the very nature of the world: but joy, pleasure, and merriment, He has scattered broadcast.

-C.S. Lewis, The Problem Of Pain (Amazon)

Sterling Terrell