the playwright

I like this:

"Lewis gives us another metaphor for knowing the truth about God when he writes that he believes in God 'as I believe the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.' Imagine trying to look directly at the sun in order to learn about it. You can't do it. It will burn out your retinas, ruining your capacity to take it in. A far better way to learn about the existence, power, and quality of the sun is to look at the world it shows you, to recognize how it sustains everything you see and enables you to see it."

"Look at what the sun shows us."

(Don't expect to see god as a common object, obvious to our eyes.)

"If the God of the Bible exists, he is not a man in the attic, but the Playwright. This means we won't be able to find him like we would find a passive object with the powers of empirical investigation. Rather, we must find the clues to his reality that he has written into the universe, including into us."

"I ask you to put on Christianity like a pair of spectacles and look at the world with it. See what power it has to explain what we know and see."

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This perspective really intrigues me. To parallel what God shows the world to that of what the sun shows us, but for life itself is really amazing. God is like the light for our hearts, our souls. When we take off our individualistic spectacles and replace them with ones that see the world through the eyes of Christianity, that is really something. To not look for God as an object, but find him through his clues. I think this means his miracles. His people and how they effect you. His love. But I'm beginning to understand that that is something you do have to seek. You have to want to accept it, allow yourself to accept it. This could come as a slap in the face. This could be when you realize that you don't have it all together and that's okay because there is something that does and there's a specific plan for each of us. It's when you really let go, and not only say it but truly trust it. Feel yourself accept love unconditionally. But how do you feel that? What do you have to do to feel that? Is it prayer? Worship? Does it change overnight? One day you accept God into your life and the next you feel overwhelming love automatically? What happens? What does it feel like? When do you feel it? I want to feel it.