OUR PERPETUAL HOMELESSNESS

"When any organism is at home, there is an ecological fit with its environment, a harmony, a rightness. If the environment does not supply this, that environment is not its home. A fish has no quarrel with the sea. Yet we have a lover’s quarrel with the world. 'If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it you don’t feel at home there? Do fish complain of the sea for being wet? Or if they did, would that fact itself not strongly suggest that they had not always been, or would not always be, purely aquatic creatures? Notice how we are perpetually surprised at Time. (‘How time flies! Fancy John being grown-up and married! I can hardly believe it!’) In heaven’s name, why? Unless indeed, there is something in us which is not temporal.'"

PETER KREEFT, HEAVEN: THE HEART'S DEEPEST LONGING quoting C.S. Lewis.