Our house has hit the market. It has been total craziness. Since Tuesday, it has been shown 5 times and we have at least 2 more today. Click here to go to our MLS page.These pictures get me so excited for warm weather. Nothing is better after a long winter than blowing bubbles and drawing with sidewalk chalk.
I read this last night and just had to share.
Time is our natural environment. We live in time as we live in the air we breathe. And we love air-who has not taken deep breaths of pure, fresh country air, just for the pleasure of it? How strange that we cannot love time. It spoils our loveliest moments. Nothing quite comes up to expectations because of it. We alone: animals, so far as we can see, are unaware of time, untroubled. Time is their natural environment. Why do we sense that it is not ours?
C.S. Lewis, in his second letter to me at Oxford, asked how it was that I, as a product of a materialistic universe, was not at home there. "Do fish complain of the sea for being wet? Or if they did, would that fact itself not strongly suggest that they had not always been, or wd. not always be, purely aquatic creatures?" Then, if we complain of time and take such joy in the seemingly timeless moment, what does that suggest?
It suggests that we have not always been or will not always be purely temporal creatures. It suggests that we were created for eternity. Not only are we harried by time, we seem unable, despite a thousand generations, even to get used to it. We are always amazed at it-how fast it goes, how slowly it goes, how much of it is gone. Where, we cry, has the time gone? We aren't adapted to it, not at home in it. If that is so, it may appear as a proof, or at least a powerful suggestion, that eternity exists and is our home.
-Sheldon Vanauken, A Severe Mercy
1 comment:
congrats and hope it sells fast!! (i will pray that you will not have 30 showings in 30 days. I still don't know how i did that with a newborn and 2 year old.)
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