We do not want merely to see beauty, though, God knows, even that is bounty enough. We want something else which can hardly be put into words—to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it. . . . At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. We cannot mingle with the splendors we see. But all the leaves of the New Testament are rustling with the rumor that it will not always be so. Some day, God willing, we shall get in...The Case For The Psalms NT Wright
Love this quote...and what it brings to mind. We should never settle for something less than what we were intended to be. It is only in participation with Christ in a life journey that we even have the insight to know that we stuck between the already and the not yet.
