A Reminder Refresher

Goodness and love are as real as their terrible opposites…But love is the final reality; and anyone who does not understand this, be he writer or sage, is a man flawed in wisdom. –Sheldon Vanuaken (A Severe Mercy)

This section stuck out for me a few days ago. I’ve been really busy, but I finally found time to think about it. And I think we can all reasonably agree with Vanuaken here. It’s hard sometimes to imagine that Love and Good do triumph in the world, especially as of late with current events in the Middle East.

Yet, the thing is that Goodness and Love really are real within this fallen world, despite the obstacles to it. The second part of Vanuaken’s statement, “Love is the final reality” really is what heaven will be. I mean, you all have heard me go off on God’s Love and that is the simple fact that Love really is the final reality for all of us that choose him.

It really is something that we lose perspective of at times. We can really let the clouds come in and cover up the sun, but we cannot remember that the sun is still shining then we really have lost it. It’s easy to say that I guess, though harder to actually do, which is the way things go.

This was really only to serve as a sort of reminder, even Vanauken states that wiser men may forget this; “be he writer or sage” he wants to make sure that always realize that Love and Goodness are real.

Praise God for that!