Hope

"Aim at Heaven and you will get earth 'thrown': aim at earth and you will get neither." -C.S. Lewis

I'm reading through Lewis' "Mere Christianity." Either he wrote this book in vocabulary that is much more understandable for the average Joe or I've acquired the ability to understand him without falling asleep. Last night I read through Chapter 10 which deals with the virtue of hope. The hope that he is referring to is 'looking forward to the eternal world.' He starts off the chapter by saying that those men who were focused on God and life in heaven were the ones who really made a difference in the world. I liked reading this. It made me want to be like those men. Heroes who allowed God to consume their life down here on earth so that he could do great works through them. Pretty rad.