{"id":4320,"date":"2009-02-13T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T06:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2009\/02\/friday-is-for-friends-99.html"},"modified":"2009-02-13T06:00:20","modified_gmt":"2009-02-13T06:00:20","slug":"friday-is-for-friends-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2009\/02\/friday-is-for-friends-99.html","title":{"rendered":"Friday is for Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Naugle’s new book, Reordered Love, Reordered Lives: Learning the Deep Meaning of Happiness<\/a>\"\"<\/strong><\/em>, is a delightful series of reflections on a Christian understanding of happiness. I like his theme of balance and I wonder if some want to converse about the struggle to find the balance or to live happily with the imbalance. Here’s a good statement by Naugle:<\/p>\n

Trying to live in the creation without the Creator, or
trying to live with the Creator without creation
is incomplete and ultimately harmful.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n


\nThe struggle for the balance is palpable and surrounded by mystery and disrupted by our brokenness (he speaks here of Genesis 3). “Still,” he says, “we have a residual memory of paradise in our minds” (27). I believe this; I hope you do, too. Brokenness makes us long for happiness so much we find shallow happinesses in shallow things and shallow relations; our yearning is so deep we fixate on the shallow as we know that there is something deeper yet to know.<\/p>\n

The Germans calls this Sehnsucht<\/i> and Lewish fixated his heart and soul on Joy. That is, “we occasionally experience a mysterious and tremendous feeling that attracts and baffles us simultaneously” (28). Where have you found this experience?<\/p>\n

Lewis said these experiences were the scent of the flower or the echo of the tune from a far country. In other words, these experiences are sacraments of The Thing Itself.<\/p>\n

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