The Christian doctrine
of suffering explains, I believe, a very curious fact about the world we live
in. The settled happiness and security
which we all desire, God withholds from us by the very nature of the
world: but joy, pleasure, and merriment,
He has scattered broadcast. We are never
safe, but we have plenty of fun, and some ecstasy. It is not hard to see why. The security we crave would teach us to rest
our hearts in this world and oppose any obstacles to our return to God: a few moments of happy love, a landscape, a
symphony, a merry meeting with our friends, a bathe or a football match, have no such tendency. Our Father refreshes us on the journey with
some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home.
-- C. S. Lewis, The
Problem of Pain
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