Connections

I reread "The Weight of Glory" last night, and this evening I finished reading the second chapter of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. Lewis and Dillard seem to be hinting and talking about very similar things in those passages, perhaps because Lewis is talking about Glory and Dillard about light and seeing.

"It was less like seeing then like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance." -Dillard talking of a heaven like experience, that is ephemeral, but is 'what she lives for'.

"Beauty has smiled, but not welcomed us; her face was turned in our direction, but not to see us."
-Lewis talking the contrast between beauty on earth as described here, and beauty in heaven which is God noticing us, seeing us, which is what we truly desire.

The more I read, the more I see and learn, the more interconnected everything seems.