The book of Ecclesiastes, which was written thousands of years ago, says, “There is nothing new under the sun.”

You’d think after that wise insight had been taught to hundreds and hundreds of generations, it would eventually sink in.  But it hasn’t.  Not with me, at least.  I thought the recent lessons I’ve been learning about being rather than doing for God was an epiphany unique to me. 

I was humbled to read the following passage written by C.S. Lewis more than 50 years ago. 

     “What is more (and I can hardly find words to tell you how important I think this), it is just the people who are ready to submit to the loss of the thrill and settle down to the sober interest, who are then most likely to meet new thrills in some quite different direction…This is, I think, one little part of what Christ meant by saying that a thing will not really live unless it first dies.  It is simply no good trying to keep any thrill: that is the very worst thing you can do.  Let the thrill go – let it die away – go on through that period of death into the quieter interest and happiness that follow – and you will find you are living in a world of new thrills all the time. 

     But if you decide to make thrills your regular diet and try to prolong them artificially, they will all get weaker and weaker, and fewer and fewer, and you will be a bored, disillusioned old man for the rest of your life.”

                                                                                                                          - C.S. Lewis, Christian Behavior