My Commonplace Book

Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on: you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently he [...]

C.S. Lewis compared God to the dentists he hated as a child. He would not to tell his mom about a toothache–”at least, not till the pain became very bad.” Why? Because Lewis knew that his mom would take him to the dentist the next morning. All he wanted was an aspirin—something [...]