lastingwells:

“It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good. Do you know what I mean? On every level of our life… we are always harking back to some occasion which seemed to us to reach perfection, setting that up as a norm, and depreciating all other occasions by comparison. … God shows us a new facet of the glory, and we refuse to look at it because we’re still looking for the old one.”

— C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm (via zacheway)