Pensee

"Yet it is good to be weary and frustrated with the fruitless search for the good, so that one can reach out one’s arms instead to the Redeemer."

Pascal, Pensee #130

So true. But in the depths of despair, how many people will turn first to their Redeemer? I far more often see people turning to all the wrong things when they know better, when they know that there is only one way for anything to get better. But do they do it? No.

And it saddens me so much because I always hear the excuse that they couldn't go to the Redeemer right now because they would feel to guilty, or wrong, or like they were using Him. To which I would point them to C.S. Lewis' idea of the Redeemer's Divine Humility.

Either that, or just tell them that they are stupid, the Redeemer doesn' work like that and He says "Come to me just as you are. Come hurt, used, tired, abused, bruised and broken. Come to my arms, enter my rest, and know the blessings that I have for you."

So much simpler that way.