Posted by Wendy | Posted in Big G | Posted on 30-09-2009
Tags: Big G, Life, The Sacred Romance
“Growing up, everything is pushed on you,” she said. “You’re trying to be the smartest, trying to compete with everyone.
Heroin, she said, was an escape.”*
Escape is defined as getting free, freeing oneself.
Transcendence is defined as going beyond one’s self.
The two are very similar in my mind and it reminded me of what I read in The Sacred Romance. We are in fact seeking to transcend. We were made that way. We were designed with heaven in mind. We weren’t meant for this world and that’s why we constantly try to escape it via alcohol, love, food, drugs, work, sports…
It’s sad.
It’s sad because we don’t go to the only One who can curb our craving for escape, who can give us a taste of heaven. We don’t go to God and He’s the one we need.
*This quote was from a New York Times article titled Young and Suburban, and Falling for Heroin.