We pay a lot for a tank with a few tropical fish in it and never tire of looking at their brilliant iridescence and marvelous forms and movements. But God has seas full of them, which he constantly enjoys.
(I can hardly take in these beautiful little creatures one at a time.)
We are enraptured by a well-done movie sequence or by a few bars from an opera or lines from a poem. We treasure our greaL experiences for a lifetime, and we may have very few of them. But he is simply one great inexhaustible and eternal experience of all that is good and true and beautiful and right. This is what we must think of when we hear theologians and philosophers speak of him as a perfect being. This is his life.
pg. 73, The Divine Conspiracy
We talked about how it seems like everything we've encountered recently is reminding us of the simplicity of following God - it's just about love. That's really all
We're also talking about how frustrated we are with how contemporary spiritual literature is so focused on the separation of the earth and heaven that it refuses to look for heaven on earth and at hand at all. Open your eyes!!!! Jesus is all around us and waiting for us to notice