DO I HAVE TO DO IT?
Amid these debilitating paradoxes of modern life, men and women search for some shred of meaning, some understanding of self. But the obsessive search for self leads only to the narcissistic destruction of what is so avidly sought. Consider the young woman cited in a Psychology Today article; her nerves were shot from too many all-night parties and discos, her life an endless round of pot, booze, and sex. When asked by her therapist: “Why don’t you stop?” her startled reply was, “You mean I really don’t have to do what I want to do?” From Loving God, by Charles Colson, p. 14
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