And
now, what does it all matter? It matters more than anything else in the world.
The whole dance, or drama, or pattern of this three-Personal life is to be
played out in each one of us: or (putting it the other way round) each one of
us has got to enter that pattern, take his place in that dance. There is no
other way to the happiness for which we were made. Good things as well as bad,
you know, are caught by a kind of infection, if you want to get warm you must
stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you
want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the
thing that has them. They are not a sort of prize which God could, if He chose,
just hand out to anyone. They are a great fountain of energy and beauty
spurting up at the very centre of reality. If you are close to it, the spray
will wet you: if you are not, you will remain dry. Once a [person] is united to
God, how could [one] not live forever? Once a [person] is separated from God,
what can [one] do but wither and die?
-- C.S. Lewis in Mere
Christianity
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