Struck me how misrepresented You are to us.
For many years, never did I realize that You are actually a joyful God.
In fact, your passion for joyful things is so great it cost you Your Son, Your own life.
The only reason I resisted You was because You seemed to forbid a lot of things.
Casual sex
Alcohol
Drugs
Green jokes
* Prada, Jimmy Choo, Manolo Blahnik
* Apple, Android
I could name a lot of things we give all our hearts to.
Things we fight with all our heart.
with all our lives.
Things that cost us everything even our relationships.
Things that in the end could not satiate the deep hunger in us.
Things that we really think give us joy.
Now I know why You say no.
We are attracted to shallow, temporal and measurable joy
When, really, only One joy is infinite.
That's You.
“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. 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.”
- CS Lewis
* God does not exactly forbid these things.
But when we find satisfaction in them more than in Him,
that's when God opposes it.
