"To live is Christ and to die is gain."
So what do we have to lose?
If only it were that easy. It's true, ultimately, what is the most we can lose but life, and what comes with death but eternal communion with our heavenly father, savior, and friend.
It's a great battle cry, a great call to boldness.
But "do you not know that your body is a temple. Glorify God with your body."
We've got to find the middle ground, where what we do acknowledges that we've got nothing to lose and yet everything that does exist here matters to some degree.
God loves us greatly and part of that was granting us the ability to love here and now. We aren't the love the here and now and yet, we are to do all we can to be here and now and live purposefully here. In doing so, you're going to love things here and now and not be able to help it.
Contradiction. Sometimes that's what it all feels like.
But it's now and not yet and it's both and, and it's always already and it's what we've got to do no matter how much we understand it.
C.S. Lewis calls humanity a great experiment, attaching an immortal soul to a mortal "animal" body. Actually, that's from the Screwtape Letters so it's more (and purposefully, ironically) harsh in explaining it.
But it's God's experiment, not ours, and he doesn't make mistakes.
-Zack
"Like Ludwig Van, how I loved that man, well the guy went deaf and didn't give a f***, no.."
-The Hours
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