Beyond Joy

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I have long been enamored by C.S. Lewis’ discussion of joy, his technical term for that longing we feel for something more than this life can deliver. In his spiritual autobiography, Surprised by Joy, he says it’s the theme of his entire life. In his classic essay, The Weight of Glory, he describes this “lifelong nostalgia” as a “longing to be reunited with something in the universe from which we now feel cut off, to be on the inside of some door which we have always seen from the outside” and concludes that it is “no mere neurotic fancy, but the truest index of our real situation.”

Blind Spots

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I recently read Eric Metaxas’ biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and marveled at how Nazi Germany could have gotten so bad. And it was considered normal. A few days later I went to the Newseum in downtown Washington, DC and saw films of our country during the 1960s’ civil rights’ movement activities. I wondered how we go to the point where white people turned hoses, guns, and hate on black people. And how it was considered normal.