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Every day we want, wish, crave, prefer, hanker for, fancy and yearn for a multitude of diverse things in a multitude of diverse ways. From Moses and Socrates to Darwin and Freud,\u00a0to contemporary neuroscientists and modern marketing gurus,\u00a0human desire has long been understood as a primary cause of human action. Any reflection on human behavior and its education must give rise to consideration of the nature and shaping of human desire. For\u00a0parent\u00a0and\u00a0teacher, this is\u00a0serious\u00a0business. At the end of the day our children will, one way or another, live out their desires. This makes the cultivation of virtuous desires of paramount importance. In the year 400, thirty years after the fact, St. Augustine, thinking back on his experience as a sixteen-year-old, decried his father\u2019s failure to root out \u201cunclean desires,\u201d a failure that would cause\u00a0St. Augustine\u00a0much brokenness and pain. Let us not fail our children in like manner.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">We take up this challenge\u00a0in the midst of\u00a0a very strange and conflicted cultural milieu. Swirling about us is the bizarre but broadly held notion that a person\u2019s desires are self-authenticating, that a man or woman\u2019s desires constitute his or her true self, that fullness of life depends upon the satisfying of\u00a0any and all\u00a0desire. We see this in the politics of human sexuality, in the mother who cannot say no to her three-year-old, and in corporate marketing slogans\u00a0like\u00a0Burger King\u2019s \u201cBe your way\u201d and Nike\u2019s \u201cJust do it.\u201d Such an ethos may be good for sales, but it is very bad for souls. We have forgotten that which was, in the\u00a0not too distant\u00a0past, common knowledge. We have forgotten that our desires may be virtuous or vicious,\u00a0and that only virtuous desires lead to life. Vicious desires lead to death.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Written\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">for \u201cyoung people of any age, from eight or nine upwards,\u201d Charlotte Mason\u2019s\u00a0<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Ourselves<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0is an allegory intended to serve as a handbook for virtuous character. Not surprisingly, several chapters are devoted to\u00a0the desires\u00a0and their\u00a0concomitant\u00a0vices. Following a tradition going back to the Golden Age of ancient Greece, she distinguishes between the appetites of \u201cthe House of Body\u201d and the desires of \u201cthe House of Mind.\u201d The appetites of the body are ordered to the maintenance of the human body and\u00a0the human race. The appetites are hunger, thirst, rest,\u00a0activity<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and chastity. That hunger, thirst and rest,\u00a0rightly ordered,\u00a0foster\u00a0a life of flourishing is self-evident. We are perhaps less conscious of our body\u2019s need to act. We may not long lay idle and still flourish. And the idea of chastity as the virtuous ordering of human sexuality rather than the suppression of human sexuality may be new to many (Freud is too much with us).\u00a0All appetites when rightly ordered give life. But each appetite has its vicious form, a form that brings death,\u00a0not life. If untended,\u00a0the good of hunger may become gluttony;\u00a0thirst,\u00a0drunkenness;\u00a0rest,\u00a0sloth;\u00a0activity,\u00a0restlessness;\u00a0and chastity,\u00a0licentiousness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Charlotte Mason enumerates the desires of the \u201cHouse of Mind\u201d as the\u00a0desires:\u00a0for approbation, of excelling, for wealth, for power, for society and for knowledge. While each of these has the potential to become a vicious tyrant, rightly ordered these desires do much to foster human flourishing. The desire for approbation or approval supports us in pursuit of the Good, assuming those whose approval we seek are themselves seeking the Good and assuming we are not enslaved to the vulgarity of display. The desire to excel energizes us\u00a0to\u00a0put\u00a0forth our best effort in worthy endeavors, provided our effort is indeed directed to something worthy,\u00a0and it is not corrupted by a preoccupation with besting others. The desire for wealth or ownership animates us to acquire and steward those things necessary for a well-lived life, provided we are not debased by avarice, the desire to acquire ever more merely for acquisition\u2019s sake. The desire for power when rightly ordered is the desire to be a potent force for Good.\u00a0The demonic\u00a0perversion is the desire for power merely to lord over others. The desire for society is the desire for a life shared with others. We all are made for, need, must have,\u00a0a community. Its perversion is the substitution of clique for community, the substitution of image, gossip and exclusivity for depth, commitment and fraternal love. As to the desire for knowledge, it is to the mind what hunger is to the body. As such, it is the chief motive for learning. Created in the image of God and made to delight in the Goodness, Truth and Beauty of God\u2019s world, if there be no delight in knowing, then something has gone terribly wrong.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Ourselves<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0concludes\u00a0with several chapters on the human soul;\u00a0its capacities, desires and nurture. Only in God is the deepest of human desires met and answered.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&#8216;I want, am made for, and must have a God.&#8217; We have within us an infinite capacity for love, loyalty, and service; but we are deterred, checked on every hand, by limitations in the objects of our love and service. It is only to our God that we can give the whole, and only from Him can we get the love we exact; a love which is like the air, an element to live in, out of which we gasp and perish. Where, but in our God, the Maker of heaven and earth, shall we find the key to all knowledge? Where, but in Him, whose\u00a0is the power, the secret of dominion? And our search and demand for goodness and beauty baffled here, disappointed there\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0it is only in our God we find the whole. The Soul is for God, and God is for the Soul, as light is for the eye, and the eye is for light. And, seeing that the Soul of the poorest and most ignorant has capacity for God, and can find no way of content without Him,\u00a0is it wholly true to say that man is a finite being? But words are baffling; we cannot tell what we mean by finite and infinite.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559737&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The catalogue of desires provided in\u00a0<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Ourselves<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0is neither definitive nor exhaustive, but it is challenging. It provides a framework for a rigorous self-examination and casts a vision for repentance from vicious desire and pursuit of virtuous desire. But how is such a pursuit to be conducted? Not by\u00a0will power. The will is weak, and it is impossible to will\u00a0one\u2019s self\u00a0into a new desire. Neurologically, the will is downstream from the desires. As far as the brain is concerned, the desires shape the will, not the will the desires. This does not mean that we are without hope or responsibility. A few things to consider:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">1. The modern myth of the autonomous self is just that, a myth. We are profoundly social beings. Unless something has gone terribly wrong, nothing matters so much to us as belonging to a community of persons who know us and are glad to be with us in life-giving ways. To thrive, we must be part of such a people. Absent that which our hearts need most, desires will warp, twist and distort in a futile attempt to compensate. The cultivation of virtuous desires requires life-giving belonging, be it at home, school or church.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">2. Assuming no immediate threat of trauma, related to and second only to belonging is our need for joy, the sense that it is good to be me here with you. Just as we are made for belonging, so we are made for joy. If we do not know the way from sadness, anger, fear or shame back to joy, our desires will warp, twist and distort in a futile attempt to compensate. If we do not know the way back to joy, we must learn, and we learn by sharing belonging with someone who does know the way. Our homes, schools and churches must be places where we belong and go to learn the way back to joy.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559685&quot;:270,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559991&quot;:302}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">3. We catch our desires like we catch the flu. Having a people to whom we belong and who help us get back to joy, we inevitably desire what our people desire and abhor what our people abhor. This is the fundamental premise of all advertising. If our people treasure Gucci and Chanel, we will treasure Gucci and Chanel. If our people abhor Gucci and Chanel, we will abhor Gucci and Chanel. If our people desire and delight in being generous, we will delight in generosity. If our people anxiously hoard, we will anxiously hoard. If our people have the habits of sweet thoughts and appreciation, we will naturally grow in the habits of sweet thoughts and appreciation. If our people are cynical and deprecating, we will be cynical and deprecating. If our people delight in literature, mathematics, science, music and painting, so will we. Our children will not form virtuous desires unless we invite them into communities of virtuous desire. There is a reason God calls us to be a part of a people growing in Christlikeness. We cannot become whom we are meant to be unless we are a part of such a people.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559685&quot;:270,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559991&quot;:302}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">4. While the will is weak, over the long term the power to direct one\u2019s attention is potent, particularly if supported by the people to whom one joyfully belongs. Thus, the wisdom of St. Paul\u2019s words: <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559685&quot;:270,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559991&quot;:302}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Beloved,\u00a0whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is pleasing, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about\u00a0these things.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559737&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Note that this admonition was not given to the Philippians as autonomous individuals,\u00a0but\u00a0to them\u00a0as a community.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559685&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">5. Finally, it is to our Father in heaven that we belong most completely and most definitively, even if we have little experience of it. Our homes, schools and churches must be places where we learn to enter more fully into joyful belonging with the Father. As we abide with Him, our desires are changed into the likeness of His desires. Such is the testimony of countless saints.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559685&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">As we increasingly experience ourselves as joyfully belonging to the\u00a0Father\u00a0and as we increasingly\u00a0experience our self\u00a0as joyfully belonging to a people of virtuous desire, so we will find our own desires and the desires of our children transformed.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_raw_html]JTVCeWFycHAlNUQ=[\/vc_raw_html][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u00a0are creatures of desire. 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