Looking for meaning in desires never works. It perennially comes up empty but one keeps looking and desperately searching anyway. But desire is a self-serving bottomless pit of longing that can never be filled, because that’s not what is really missing from life. What is missing comes from a connection with something greater than yourself. From self-sacrifice and deep relationship. From not letting your whims take control. From connecting with friends, family, beauty, the sacred and the incredible created world in which we are incredibly blessed to find ourselves.
We become a little ouroboros reaching out and out into the universe, trying to encompass it all within ourselves, and instead just become self devouring snakes.
Andrew Klavan has a wonderful description in The Truth and Beauty of what happens when you try to do "good" outside of God - your "good" acts spiral into ugliness and evil like Lucifer into Satan or us into self-devouring snakes. (The description in the book is sooo much better - like yours.)
"It’s not a “conservative” show by any means—just an honest one about the shallowness and hypocrisy of high society, which today is characterized by pretensions to social justice and a grandiose array of ever-shifting allegiances to ever-more obscure causes."
Looking for meaning in desires never works. It perennially comes up empty but one keeps looking and desperately searching anyway. But desire is a self-serving bottomless pit of longing that can never be filled, because that’s not what is really missing from life. What is missing comes from a connection with something greater than yourself. From self-sacrifice and deep relationship. From not letting your whims take control. From connecting with friends, family, beauty, the sacred and the incredible created world in which we are incredibly blessed to find ourselves.
It looks like what might happen when we "will be like God". It doesn't really work.
We become a little ouroboros reaching out and out into the universe, trying to encompass it all within ourselves, and instead just become self devouring snakes.
Andrew Klavan has a wonderful description in The Truth and Beauty of what happens when you try to do "good" outside of God - your "good" acts spiral into ugliness and evil like Lucifer into Satan or us into self-devouring snakes. (The description in the book is sooo much better - like yours.)
I need to reread it. it's been a few years.
"It’s not a “conservative” show by any means—just an honest one about the shallowness and hypocrisy of high society, which today is characterized by pretensions to social justice and a grandiose array of ever-shifting allegiances to ever-more obscure causes."
Tower of Power - What is Hip (Album Version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAatPPEaZDA
This lent I've been trying to "flip the script" in my head. Its been a greater challenge than I anticipated. Gal. 2:20
God bless you
And just like that, ordering chamomile tea will never be the same again.