From Andree Seu’s essay
“Be Somebody”…
“When you don’t have an internal sense of Self, you need an external–and a constant supply of it. You’re condemned to roam the earth a parasite…We are all in need of a Self, of being somebody with respect to an outside source of approval…No one is ultimate enough in himself to be his own final integration point.”
“In 1944 C.S. Lewis gave the Memorial Lecture at the University of London’s King College…he warned against desiring to be in “the inner ring.”…(saying) I believe that in all men’s lives at certain periods, and in many men’s lives at all periods…, one of the most dominant elements is the desire to be inside the local ring and the terror of being left outside.” Lewis adds, “Unless you take measures to prevent it, this desire is going to be one of the chief motives of your life…Any other kind of life, if you lead it, will be the result of a conscious and continuous effort.”
“…Perhaps all lusts are corruptions of good desires. Before “sin, the flesh, and the devil” got a hold of us in Eden, we desired (and we had) sweet intimacy with the Lord–and because of that, with each other. His love, and the assurance of it, were the wellspring from which to bathe our neighbors in nurturing, the hub of solid soul from which spokes of ministry and not manipulation emanated.”
“Acceptance is tendered: ‘I will give him a white stone, with a new name written on the stone that no one knows except the one who receives it’ (Revelation 2:17). My soul, find yourself in Jesus and be free.”
I love this… “My soul, find yourself in Jesus and be free.”
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