Amazing Mark12_30! That was probably the most stunningly precise elucidation that I have yet read. THAT is what I've been trying to give voice to, and you did it so very eloquently.
The first time I read LotR, I was struggling to reconcile the God of sunday school coloring books and grape Kool-Aid with the compelling, merciful, overwhelmingly exultant God that I saw other Christians reveling in.
When I saw what Frodo had done, I understood it. Crackers and Kool-Aid are gone forever, but this is something that is so fiercely joyful that it can never fade. It was, instantly and irrevocably, a paradigm for the spirit I had missed.
Thank you Mark, I was hoping that amid all these convictions someone would hit it [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img].
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"'You," he said, "tell her all. What good came to you? Do you rejoice that Maleldil became a man? Tell her of your joys, and of what profit you had when you made Maleldil and death acquainted.'" -Perelandra, by C.S. Lewis
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