and i urge you to read c.s. lewis's lecture "a slip of the tongue," about our affinity for guarding "our things temporal." below is a link to an excerpt:
full text is in the weight of glory, a collection of essays, etc:
maybe this will whet your appetite: "for it is not so much of our time & so much of our attention that God demands; it is not even all our time & all our attention; it is ourselves... for He has, in the last resort, nothing to give us but Himself; and He can give that only insofar as our self-affirming will retires & makes room for Him in our souls."
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