From derrach.blogspot.com - 1/19/09
This hit me like a ton of bricks today:
"It is easy to acknowledge but almost impossible to realise for long, that we are mirrors whose brightness, if we are bright, is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us. Surely we must have a little - however little - native luminosity? Surely we can't be quite creatures." ... "Grace substitutes a full, childlike and delighted acceptance of our Need, a joy in total dependence. We become 'jolly beggars.' "
-C.S. Lewis in The Four Loves
It's really hard to boast of any sort of accomplishment or status in light of those words. Try reading again and again.
-dp-
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