Desires

Clive Staples Lewis is currently one of my most favourite Christian authors. Here is a Harper Collins publishing house description of C S Lewis:

"Clive Staple Lewis (1898 - 1963) was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably the most influential writer of his day. He was a Fellow and Tutor in English literature at Oxford University until 1954 when he was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge University, a position he held until his retirement. He wrote more than 30 books, allowing him to reach a vast audience, and his works continue to attract thousands of new readers every year. His most distinguished and popular accomplishments include The Chronicles of Narnia, The Cosmic Trilogy, The Four Loves, The Screwtape Letters and Mere Christianity."

Alec,

Regarding our MSN Messenger conversation about Time and Eternity and the Afterlife, here is a marvellous quote from C S Lewis. Not sure if it is intellectually and rationally convincing to you, but I certainly hope it at the very least sets you thinking...

Taken from Mere Christianity:

"Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for these desires exist. A baby feels hunger; well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim; well, there is such a thing as water. Men feel sexual desire; well, there is such a thing as sex. If I find myself a desire which no experience in the world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."

Speaking of desires, I will like to extract a snippet of an email titled Somewhere In Between The Middle that I typed to a colleague of mine Colin:

"We all have desires. We all desire something to satisfy us. We desire for perfect truth, life, and love; truth without error, life without death, and love without hatred. Yet, we do not find these things since we find imperfect truth, life, and love in the world. Therefore there has to be Perfect Truth, Life, and Love, which is transcendent. Perfect Truth, Life, and Love is what we call God. If there is nothing to Satisfy, why do we have Desires?"

I suspect the aforementioned has been inadequate in pushing for my case but we shall visit this topic again, shall we not?