July 22, 2008

"When my heart was grieved
and my spirit embittered,
I was senseless and ignorant;
I was a brute beast before you.
Yet I am always with you;
you hold me by my right hand.
You guide me with your counsel,
and afterward you will take me
into glory.
Whom have I in heaven but you?
And earth has nothing I
desire besides you.
My flesh and my heart may fail,
but God is the strength of my heart
and my portion forever."
- Psalms 73:21-26 (NIV)


"And all the time the joke is that the word 'Mine' in its fully possessive sense cannot be uttered by a human being about anything. In the long run either Our Father or the Enemy will say 'Mine' of each thing that exists and specially of each man. They will find out in the end, never fear, to whom their time, their souls, and their bodies really belong - certainly not to them, whatever happens."
- C.S. Lewis, "The Screwtape Letters" (p 114-115)