The Kingdom of Heaven

From C.S. Lewis:  Christ said it was difficult for the "the rich" to enter the Kingdom of Heaven...Good fortune, health, popularity...tend just as money tends...to make you feel independent of God, because if you have them you are happy already and contented in this life.  You don't want to turn away to anything more, so you try to rest in a shadowy happiness as if it could last for ever.  But God wants to give you a real and eternal happiness.  Consequently He may have to take these "riches" away from you...It sounds cruel, doesn't it?  But I am beginning to find out that what people call the cruel doctrines are really the kindest ones in the long run.

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Fr. Wayne Wilson