The Choice Between Love of God and Love of Self
There are two forces at work in the world—gravity and grace—and each of us must choose to follow one or the other. There is no third way. Are we to be moved by the downward pull of the one, leading to dissolution and death? Or do we allow ourselves to be drawn upward by the other, which leads to everlasting life and the joys of Paradise? “Once a poor creature,” the poet George Herbert announces…