TOD 03.18.08

The worst threats to what is good in life do not come from obvious fakes which are easily spotted. The real danger is from the high quality counterfeits which imitate the authentic so well that they fool many people.

For example, you may know everything there is to know about a public figure (even more than he knows about himself, perhaps), but this does not mean that you know him. You may really love the idea of having children, but that is not the same as feeling pain at every separation from a particular cherub. You may recognize that the person you are dating is a wonderful catch, but that is never the same as being personally captivated by her. In all of these cases, there is a similar problem: being attached to an abstraction which some reality happens to satisfy rather than being attached to the reality itself.

And as you would suspect, this is even more the case when it comes to God. Many people know about God, love the idea of God, and even recognize God’s wondrous qualities. Tragically, none of these things is even the most remote substitute for loving God, Himself.

The child may know less, understand less, and appreciate less about his father, but he is still his daddy’s boy. And that is the truth that counts.