"Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that
house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is
getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on;
you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But
presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts
abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up
to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house
from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on
an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought
you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a
palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
I love this quote from Lewis. As you get older you start feeling that
most of the work has been done on your house (yourself) and you can take
it easy and all of a sudden God's building a new wing and its quite
upsetting. I find that I am more engaged in learning and growing in my
faith more involved in other peoples lives and more involved with my
grown children and their children there is no time to back off and think
of myself. What a waste of time that is. I do know some people who as
they have gotten older are more withdrawn, concerned only for themselves
and have put up a sign "no new construction here" How sad for them.
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