Aristotle. Augustine. Pascal. Percy. All these brilliant minds saw this restlessness within the human condition. But this reality is old, older than Aristotle and Augustine. I mean, this goes back all the way to our origin stories, to the God who dreamed all this, including us, into being. As a Christian, I hold to the story about a garden, one that held everything we could ever want or need. But the temptation for something more was too great to resist, and whether it was an apple or a peach or an ear of sweet corn, the fruit in question was good and pleasing to the eyes, and desirable for
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