Absolutely LOVED chatting with you the other night and hearing your thoughts on what you are reading and learning. Some beautiful truths being revealed there. I cant wait till I can read it! See you soon! hugs!

Ahhhh. C. S. Lewis. Always a treat!

Dear Lindsay.. I know we had promised to have our "religion" disscussion face to face.. but i have received another of these zanga blogs.. and it of course gets me to thinking again....It seems to me that all people of faith or religion seem to be preoccupied with the lack in their lives and the basic depravity of man. In fact all their energies seem to be focused on overcoming the apparant evil nature of human kind. They spend all of their time "in their head".  That is kind of weird that so much energy is focused on being the opposite of evil or bad. The very example that your Lewis quote uses that a child continues to make mud pies in the slum, when in fact this same child could be at a resort on the ocean. What an entirely offensive analogy. He is talking about the "staggering" rewards that are available to us if we only accept, and then he prooves his own failure to do so buy using this example? Has Lewis no concept of what it is to be "present"? This child is making the best of it's situation by enjoying just exactly the resourses that are placed before him/her. This child is acting from it's heart and celebrating life in the moment to the fullest! Not lamenting what is wrong and what should be different. Then the closing comment of "we are far too easily pleased"?? Maybe it is that people of religion are far too obsessed with their plans of, how to obtain the afterlife, that they fail to see the ONLY requirement is a pure thankfulness for what we have and presently are? This  I think has far more value than a hundred years of bible study.. Love unkl chuck..