August 27, 2011

• Looking forward to the present

  A large part of becoming an adult is training your emotions, but a good many people end up simply training them away.  Do not follow the crowd towards thinking that emotions are in themselves inappropriate, something you are immature for not having left behind.

   

  There is a little melancholy in every hope.  At least as you get older and realize ‘What a great thing this would be! . . . ah, but I have had hopes before.’

   

  I never want to end up believing that I deserved everything.

   

  Sexual attraction comes cheap.  In that way, sexual attraction is very unattractive.

   

  Life is happening now.  Don’t put off being alive.  It’s a myth that life starts with financial security.

   

  Once you have tasted disappointment, there is an understanding that you are not supposed to be wildly happy anymore.  When you look at the other adults while driving, they always have very serious faces.  We have lost the virginity of our souls, we have felt sadness, and are supposed to carry it everywhere.

   

  There are many things to look forward to this year, to hope for, and it all feels very big inside me.  But I don’t want to feel entitled to a good life.  I don’t want to feel owed something by God.  We are taught that in a life with God we should expect pain, and that pain will grow us into something that really matters.  Comforts are good, but having only comfort would spoil us into a self-satisfied vapor, and we would sail away when the winds of eternity come sweeping through the world.

   

  Be courageous! The Lord will be with you. You do not walk alone. 

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