On turning your pleasure into adoration

"It is the stealing of the apples that is bad, not the sweetness. The sweetness is still a beam from the glory...I have tried since...to make every pleasure into a channel of adoration. I don't mean simply by giving thanks for it. One must of course give thanks, but I meant something different...Gratitude exclaims, very properly, "How good of God to give me this." Adoration says, "What must be the quality of that being whose far-off and momentary coruscations are like this!" One's mind runs back up the sunbeam to the sun...If this is Hedonism, it is also a somewhat somewhat arduous discipline. But it is worth some labour."

CS Lewis quoted in John Piper, When I don't desire God, How to Fight for Joy
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