Bono, U2
Author Gerald May writes in her book, The Awakened Heart:
“There is a desire within each of us, in the deep center of ourselves that we call our heart. We were born with it, it is never satisfied, and it never dies. We are often unaware of it, but it is always awake…Our true identity, our reason for being,is to be found in this desire.”
This is what C.S. Lewis called…”almost committing an indecency.” he said.. “I am trying to rip open the inconsolable secret in each one of you – the secret which hurts so much that you take revenge on it by calling it names like Nostalgia and Romanticism and Adolescence."
This may come as a surprise: Christianity is not aninvitation to become a moral person. Christianity is about a relationship with a person. It is about restoring what has been lost and broken. Neither the reformation of society nor the improvement of the individual is the chief aim. Though Christianity has a powerful effect upon the social order and our lives, however when transformation of morality comes, it is always the aftereffect of something else.
At its core, Christianity begins with an invitation to desire which leads to scandalous grace.
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