Ever have a bad day? Try this from Phil Laeger (especially "I Surrender" and "Don't Want the Music") http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/phillaeger
Yes, today was one, but I'm moving on 'surrendered'.
C.S. Lewis said to me today: "The New Testament has a lot to say about self-denial, but not as an end in itself. We are told to deny ourselves and to take up our crosses in order that we may follow Christ; and nearly every description of what we shall ultimately find if we do so contains an appeal to desire. If there lurks in most modern minds the notion that to desire our own good and earnestly to hope for the enjoyment of it is a bad thing, I submit that this notion has crept in...and is no part of the Christian faith. Indeed, if we consider the unblusing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires, not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures fooling around with drink and sex and ambition (his words, not mine!) 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. from The Weight of Glory
I want to take God up on His offer of "Infinite Joy"!
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