Blog 3220 – 08.26.2024

The Shortest Distance

The shortest distance between where you are and where you want to be is joy. Nothing makes us more joyful than finding people and things for which we are truly grateful. I have attached a link at the bottom of this blog to Josh Groban and Charlotte Church singing The Prayer, a song made famous by Andrea Bocelli and Celine Dion. I call your attention to the words of verse four:

One of my favorite authors when I was a young man was C.S. Lewis who as it turn out died before I ever knew of him on my thirteenth birthday, the same day that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated and also the day another famous author died, Aldous Huxley, on November 22,1963. Lewis’ autobiography is entitled Surprised by Joy and is largely about the great love of his life his higher self -God. It is not surprising that he would marry a woman named Joy Davidson, an American lady that he befriended through letters and later in life married after her husband died.

He was not the first nor the last to be surprised by love, to be surprised by joy, nor to realize that such a joy is always the shortest distance between where we are and where we want to be.

Your friend and fellow traveler,

David White

Josh Groban – The Prayer (with Charlotte Church) (Official Audio)

Josh Groban – The Prayer (with Charlotte Church) (Official Audio)

Authors Note: My own life journey is more like the reverse of that of C.S. Lewis, yet I still can appreciate his thinking process in trying to make sense of the inexplicable.