Thursday, May 06, 2010

Nothing

What are you doing? Are you doing something?
What are you thinking? What are you thinking about?

Here is Screwtape instructing Wormwood:
"The Christians describe the Enemy (God) as one 'without whom Nothing is strong'. And Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind over it knows not what and knows not why, in the gratification of curiosities so feeble that the man is only half aware of them, in drumming of fingers and kicking of heels, in whistling tunes that he does not like, or in the long, dim labyrinth of reveries that have not even lust or ambition to give them relish, but which once chance association has started them, the creature (human) is too weak and fuddled to shake off." p.60

How goes the spark of thought or the twinkle in your eye? Do you see possibilities and strongholds falling? Do you find it hard to sit still? Are you on hell's most wanted list?

Or, are you listing here or there, dabbling a bit but never really digging in. Nothing is worse than the nothing we can do while thinking we are up to something.

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