Building mud castles

I stumbled upon this article today on a friend’s blog. It’s about how the internet has become the main source of information/study, etc. to the extent that it has effectively dulled and dumbed-down our generation’s way of learning. I hope he doesn’t mind my sharing it below. Now that I’ve started a blog, I must confess that I feel a measure of guilt when I think that I have added yet another routine to my life, one more thing to take my time and energy, one more task to devote my self to. I have certainly spent much more time on my computer in the past few weeks, and I know there are countless better things I could be doing.

C.S. Lewis said something about the sad fact that we as humans don’t realize that the Kingdom is upon us because we are so busy building little mud piles here on earth. We are so wrapped up with the things of this world, so wrapped up with ourselves that we cannot even look up and glimpse what is our true destiny as human persons. We fail to grasp that we are meant for eternal communion with God! 

“When infinite joy is offered us, [we are] like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in the slums because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.” C.S. Lewis 

I sometimes come to the startling reality that I spend most (if not all) of my time so wrapped up with myself and the necessities of life, that I am not living each day as I should–awake and alive to the very presence of God in the world! Lord have mercy.

You can read his post, called “The Siren Song of the Internet” here.

I’d love to hear what you might have to say about it. It certainly sparked many thoughts for me.