“Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.”
CS Lewis is right. Sadness has a way of snowballing. It’s in perpetual motion. The very feeling of depression is in itself depressing.
But I think that true delight in God is supposed to be the same way. Jesus is enjoyable. The most enjoyable. But as we enjoy him, we are also meant to enjoy that we get to do so, so that our enjoyment snowballs.
It’s a shame our tendency is to put a stop to that snowball and not so often the other.
