Spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it all, right away, every time. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water.
[Annie Dillard]

This is a piece on C.S. Lewis’s favorite books, which talks especially about the odd book out, the only one that’s not Christian: Virgil’s Aeneid.

My favorite line, I think, is Lewis’ writing to Dorothy Sayers that “The effect is one of the immense costliness of a vocation combined with a complete conviction that it is worth it.”

In other words, calling is for grownups, and hearing a calling involves learning what it means to be a grownup instead of an overgrown adolescent. (I’m still learning.)