The Paradox of Life

Just had to share this thought from my morning reading. C.S. Lewis was not only wise, but so powerfully articulate.

God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from. ... the Christian religion is, in the long run, a thing of unspeakable comfort. But it does not begin in comfort; it begins in the dismay I have been describing, and it is no use at all trying to go on to that comfort without first going through that dismay. In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is the one thing you cannot get by looking for it. If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth—only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and, in the end, despair. –C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

Thanks Jesse for getting me to finally read this book.

Thanks everyone for your encouragement with my Ward Conference talk. It's less than 48 hours away. I do finally know what I'm talking about. Still deciding exactly what I'm going to say.