More thoughts on the picture:
my selfishness demands to be obeyed. love transgresses that law.
when I sinned, I wronged God and am incapable of making it up to him. I can be at peace only by God making it right, at the cost of his son.
“it is in giving we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, it is in dying that we are born into eternal life.” as we die to ourselves for the sake of a new law, we are transformed into creatures who have hope.
- Clean my room
- Sell my textbooks
- Figure out Photoshop
- Sew myself clothes
- Practice driving
- Read [An Experiment in Criticism; Bird by Bird; Fear and Trembling; Alas, Babylon; The Death of Ivan Ilyich; What is Art?;] and I’m not sure what else.
- Work for ICC
- Run
- Visit friends! =)
to the pure, all things are
pure (joy, obedience)
will one thing
ensnare them? no;
they are free, for
given identitys stay
they cannot be lost
Socrates: Do you know any group of people who never yearn for freedom but for bondage instead? What wants not to be free but to be bound?
Felicia: I don’t know. What a silly thing to want! What silly people they must be! Who are they?
Socrates: Lovers.
Felicia: Oh! They don’t talk about freedom, do they?
Socrates: No. And do you know why?
Felicia: No. Why?
Socrates: Because they are already free.
-from The Best Things in Life, by Peter Kreeft
In prayer, you make wild promises
You half-hope cannot be kept
You contemplate currents of possible
Assured, to these you won’t be swept
What holds you to your kingdom?
The need to know and control
You may pass by glory eternal
To maintain your own body and soul
I AM must at last compel you
He drags from safe shores to his sea
Turns knowledge into believing
He is Lord, Reality.
“If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, ‘I am.’” -C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy
