John Eldredge ‘Desire’
‘Bringing our heart along in our life’s journey is the most important mission of our lives - and the hardest. It all turns on what we do with our desire. If you will look around, you will see that most people have abandoned the journey… Life provides any number of reasons and occasions to abandon desire. Certainly, one of the primary reasons is that creates for us our deepest dilemmas. To desire something and not to have it - is this not the source of nearly all our pain and sorrow?’
John Eldredge
‘Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
Langston Hughes
‘Dare we awaken our hearts to their true desires? Dare we come alive? Is it better, as the saying goes, to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all? We’re not so sure… Our dilemma is this: we can’t seem to live with desire, and we can’t live without it. In the face of this quandary most people seem to bury the whole question and put as much distance as they can between themselves and their desires. It is a logical and tragic act. The tragedy is increased tenfold when this suicide of the soul is committed under the conviction that this is precisely what Christianity recommends. We have never been more mistaken.’
John Eldredge
1 year ago • Notes