Some Light that I Encountered Anew

I've been trying to post for a couple of days but have had trouble getting onto the Blogger site. Don't know what the trouble is but it looks like it might finally work!

Joy Davidman in her book, Smoke on the Mountain (Hodder and Stoughton, 1955, 125), writes,

And perhaps Christianity, if we ever embrace it not for our own worldly advantage but through surrender to God, will not only enable us to...save this transitory world for the few perpexled years we spend in it, but bring us out of this noise and darkness and helplessness and terror that we call the world into the full Light: Light we remember from our childhood dreams and from glimpses through music and art and the ecstasy of first love; Light we have known through a brief glow in our few moments of really selfless charity; Light which, in our secret hearts, we desire more than money and sex and power and the pride of the self. We men are all theives who have stolen the self which was meant as a part of God and tried to keep it for ourselves alone. But if we give it up again, we might hear the words he spoke to a penitent thief once: 'Today shalt though be with me in paradise.'