Patches of Godlight
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| (Mystic light by Thierry Hennet - found here) |
I once had to teach a Sunday School class, kindergarten
level, and I was talking about Heaven. A boy asked me how he would recognize
God in Heaven. What a question! Only the Holy Spirit could answer it, and
fortunately He did. I blurted out: ‘He will be the most absolutely beautiful
thing you ever saw!’ The kid said to me, ‘You’re right.’ I was put in my place,
and given a passing grade by the real teacher.
All beauty is what C. S. Lewis called ‘patches of Godlight’
in our shadowy woods.
All beauty makes us happy. To people who doubt that
spiritual beauty makes you happier than physical beauty, I say: go live with
Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity for half a day, and you will see a
beauty and a happiness that you never saw before in this world, and that you
will see even more of in the next if you really want to.
Beauty is irresistible. Truth is easily resistible. We are
very good at deceiving ourselves. Goodness is easily resistible. We can shut up
our consciences very easily. But we cannot shut up that nightingale in the
heart with the heartbreaking voice that demands its food.”
~Peter Kreeft
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