[Every Saturday the English newspaper “The Daily Telegraph” has a column entitled “Meditation”, and the author of the articles is Edward Norman. This recent edition is worth recording.]
Sacrifice
PRIDE is a great inventor of religion. We set up ourselves and our needs, and then select religious beliefs which cater for them; our souls are fed a diet of self-satisfaction. We seek a God who will flatter our self-esteem; who will grant our wish to find meaning and purpose in life, who will preside over a personal universe of ordered and uninterrupted happiness; whose ways are our ways; whose provisions meet our wants; whose laws we can easily obey without personal cost. [Read more…]