Just what I needed as I took a quick lunch break before tackling the house:
As for renunciation and detachment, the Christian understanding is not a rejection of material things because they are bad, or even because we want to ascend to the more spiritual realm, or even because attachment to the material things causes suffering. This is Buddhist. Instead Christian detachment is ‘attachment’ to all things in the rightful priority. We love all things. We love all created things. Its just that we must love them according to their intrinsic worth. This is where Thomas Traherne’s thought is so beautiful: “Can a man be just unless he loves all things according to their value.” We renounce not the things or the people, but our inordinate or distorted love of them. By putting God first the rest of our world falls in line with everything in its proper value and place. “Seek first the kingdom of God and everything else will be added to you.”
And now, the desk. Always the desk. Girls’ room after that.
This sort of thing is why I buy his books; and then read them.
Yep.
Just read _The Gargoyle Code_, need to put a review up. Total impulse buy (was shopping for the godchildren). Excellent. I imagine you’ve already read it, but if not, procure a copy and do so.