Baby Aedán turns three today. My good friend, David, turns forty. Separated by thirty seven years they appear so very different today. In God’s time they are NOT.
“Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger:well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water. Men feel sexual desire: well, there is such a thing as sex. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probably explanation is that I was made for another world. If none of my earthly pleasures satisfy it, that does not prove that the universe is a fraud. Probably earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy it, but only to arouse it, to suggest the real thing. If that is so, I must take care, on the one hand, never to despise, or be unthankful for, these earthly blessings, and on the other, never to mistake them for something else of which they are only a kind of copy, or echo, or mirage. I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other country and to help others to do the same.” C.S. Lewis taken from Mere Christianity
Happy birthday to Aedán and David. You are both becoming great, young men. You belong to great families and friends. Always remember whose you are. Putting first things first doesn’t make second things less, it actually makes them more. Thanks, Clive. It’s been an energizing fifth read. Thanks for the reminders. God, help me remember whose I am.
Live hard. Love ❤️ harder…
BUILT TO LEAD 