re: Glenn Lucke interview: "...LMc: The Beautiful Ache is definitely a book that took shape over time. I’m usually much more deliberate about writing projects, but this one wasn’t on my schedule. I wasn’t sure when I began writing the chapters that they would ever become a book, at all. And it took some time before the thread that held them together became clear to me. /I just subconsciously kept coming back around to the same touchstone of truth: that we are made for another world, see glimpses of it here, and ache for what is not yet ours. Then, that the ache is a good thing – not something to be stuffed, or soothed or medicated or dismissed. It teaches us things we need to know. It has real value. /The book actually began over six years ago with a piece called “Beautiful Joe,” a story I read as a child that taught me the value of persevering through pain. Each chapter of The Beautiful Ache examines a different aspect or “ache” of in-between living: the ache for adventure, the ache of persevering, the ache to worship, the ache for healing, and so on. C.S. Lewis said, “If we find in ourselves a desire which no earthly experience can satisfy, the most logical explanation is that we were made for another world.” It sounds so simple when he says it, doesn’t it?..."...
hat tip: Phil at Brandywine Books
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