Today's Reading
The human spirit will not even begin to try and
surrender self-will /as long as all seem to be well with it.
* As long as or so long as also means 'provided that', 'providing that' or 'on condition that'
Now error
and sin both have this property, that the deeper they are the less their
victim suspects their existence;
they are masked evil.
Pain is
unmasked, unmistakable evil;
every man knows that something is wrong
/when he is being hurt…
And pain is not only immediately recognizable
evil, but evil impossible to ignore.
We can rest contentedly in our sins
and in our stupidities;
and [anyone //who has watched gluttons shoveling
down the most exquisite foods
/as if they did not know what they were
eating], will admit that we can ignore even pleasure.
But pain insists
upon [being attended to].
God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in
our conscience, but shouts in our pains:
it is His megaphone to rouse a
deaf world.
From The Problem of Pain
Compiled in The Business of Heaven
The Problem of Pain.
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