I was lost in death
but found family in a life
that I can not explain
Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn.
—C.S. Lewis
“I think a secularist has only one substitute left for God, only one
experience in a desacrilized world that still gives him something like the
mystical, self-transcending thrill of ecstasy that God designed all souls to
have forever, and to long for until they have it. Unless he is a surfer,
that experience has to be sex. We’re designed for more than happiness; we’re
designed for joy. Aquinas writes, with simple logic, “Man cannot live
without joy. That is why one deprived of true spiritual joys must spill over
to carnal pleasures.”
Drugs and alcohol are attractive because they claim to feed the same need.
They lack the ontological greatness of sex, but they provide the same
semi-mystical thrill: the transcendence of reason and self-consciousness. I
do not mean this merely as moral condemnation, but as psychological
analysis.
In fact, though they sound shocking, I think the addict is closer to the
deepest truth than the mere moralist. He is looking for the very best thing
in some of the very worst places. His demand for a state in which he
transcends morality is very wrong, but it’s also very right. For we are
designed for something beyond morality, something in which morality will be
transformed. Mystical union with God. Sex is a sign and appetizer of that.
Moral absolutists must never forget that morality, though absolute, is not
ultimate. It is not our *Summum Bonum*. Sinai is not the Promised Land;
Jerusalem is. And in the New Jerusalem, what finally happens as the last
chapter of human history is a wedding between the Lamb and His bride.
Deprived of this Jerusalem, we must buy into Babylon. If we do not worship
God, we will worship idols, for we are by nature worshippers.”
— -Peter Kreeft
Im not kidding this is the soundtrack for my summer… I will easily listen to this probably a good 600-700 times by august! I suggest you all buy it
Instead of studying for finals, what about just going to the Bahamas and catching some rays? Maybe you’ll flunk, but you might have flunked anyway; that’s my point.
—James Handy
(Source: asoundaside)
WOW!
Best Movie Ever !
baby i’ve been here before
i’ve seen this room and i’ve walked this floor
i used to live alone before i knew you
i’ve seen your flag on the marble arch
but love is not a victory march
it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah
when i cant sleep
this playlist knocks me out every time:
Brothers on a hotel bed - Death Cab for cutie
Signs and wonders- Consider the Thief
This place is a prison- Postal Service
Blindsided- Bon Iver
Cold Desert- Kings of Leon
Hallelujah- Jeff Buckley
Please Dont Go - Barcelona
Your Hand in Mine- Explosions in the sky
Acrobat- As tall as lions
