Miracles

"In a pond whose surface was completely covered with scum and floating vegetation, there might be a few water-lilies. And you might be of course be interested in them for their beauty. But you might also be interested in them because from their structure you could deduce that they had stalks underneath which went down to roots in the bottom." The naturalist thinks that the pond (nature - the great even in space and time) is of indefinite depth - that there is nothing but water however far you go down. My claim is that some of the things on the surface (i.e. in our experience) show the contrary. These things (rational mind) reveal, on inspection, that they at least are not floating but attached by stalks to the bottom. Therefore the pond has a bottom. It is no pond, pond for ever. Go deep enough and you will come to something that is not pond but mud and earth and then to rock and finally the whole bulk of Earth and the subterranean fire." C.S. Lewis Miracles

I'm reallying liking this latest  book from C.S. Lewis. I've heard the argument before from Eugène N. Marais stated in his book "The Soul of the White Ant" that the greatest proof that there is a God that in world of competition, death, and pain we look for love, peace, and justice. C.S. Lewis along similar lines argues that our reason and moral reason are the greatest proof that there is a God.

Anyways I have found Derek Gust and am really liking his music. Go check him out.

God lead us closer to you.
God help us listen to you
God move us
God heal us

"The Screwtape Letters"

I have come across another interesting idea proposed by C.S. Lewis

It's the idea that Satan is wanting us to become so focused on our selves that we forget about real pleasures, real truth. God on the other hand wants us to focus on him and it turn return to us the very things we gave to him. Satan wants us to focus on the future and what really can not be ("nearly all vises are rooted in the future"). ie worries about the future .. so that we do not act today. God wants us to act. Wants us to enjoy the now (which is an action). C.S lewis talking as Satan "We want a whole race perpetually in pursuit of the rainbow's end, never hones, nor kind, nor happy now, but always using as mere fuel wherwith to heap the alter of the future every real gift which is offered them in the Present." God wants us to "to bring the man to a state of mind in which he could design the best cathedral in the world, and know it to be the best, and rejoice in the fact, without being any more (or less) or otherwise glad at having done it had he would be if it had been done be another" "He wants to kill their animal self-love as soon as possible; but it is His long-term policy, I fear, to restore to them a new kind of self love -- a charity and gratitude for all selves, including their own when they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours."

C.S lewis "The Screwtape Letters"

God Bless you
God turn your hearts toward him
God work in our lives
God help us to depend on you