Why We Go

But what is it that we think we’re doing there? Why have we come? Are we aware that during the brief time we spend filling that space, we’ve actually taken leave of this world, entering upon another world far beyond the parking lot? That we’ve been swept utterly away from the workaday world we know, summoned across the threshold of time and space, in order that we may be ushered into the very presence of God Himself? “Suddenly,” reports Josef Pieper in his little book In Tune with the World, “the walls of the solid here and now are burst asunder and the everyday realm of existence is thrown open to Eternity.”