Quote of the Day

The very nature of joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.  There, to have is to want and to want is to have.  Thus, the very moment when I longed to be so stabbed, was itself again such a stabbing.

-C.S. Lewis, Suprised by Joy, ch. 11

Lewis is talking about the experience of Christ-based joy.  Not only is the knowing of Jesus joyful, but the wanting to know Jesus or the pursuit of knowing Jesus is joyful in itself.