Falling short of the glory

Here's a nice patient response to the "if-homosexual-acts-are-evil-then-so-are-shellfish-and-also-polyester-blends-and-BTW-slavery-is-okay" argument that's been dragged out again. What really struck me, though, was this man's statement about his conversion when he realized "how far we fall short of the glory of God". This is something I've been thinking about a lot lately -- how we think we're just fine because we settle for so little, because we take the cheap substitute not knowing the real thing exists or not letting ourselves admit it does. We are, as St. Thomas More says, like a man who's on his way back to his comfortable home, but stops off at an inn -- and spends the rest of his life there, working in the stable for free drinks.