I can't see myself ever finishing this book. There is far too much to learn. For now I'll just continue rereading the first three chapters until their truth has been imbedded in my skin: permanent.
"To ask that God's love should be content with us as we are is to ask that God should cease to be God: because He is what He is, His love must, in the nature of things, be impeded and repelled by certain stains in our present character, and because He already loves us He must labour to make us loveable... What we would here and now call our 'happiness' is not the end God chiefly has in view: but when we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy."
C.S. Lewis, Problem of Pain
