day no. 17,213: you can't blow sunshine at concrete

"The law of God is like math. It doesn’t care about anybody’s hurt feelings. It is straight, and hard, and cold, and altogether righteous. But at the same time, when this cold, very cold law is resurrected in the body of Christ back from the darkness of the tomb, it comes to us as burning love. And this is why the message must be cold law and hot gospel.” — Douglas Wilson, Mere Christendom

Cold, unbending concrete is not a bad thing. Especially when you're trying to build a house. A firm foundation is essential.

Matthew 7:24-27

Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.

Better to have a cold, hard rock than wet, warm sand beneath your feet if you're trying to build something. There is a time for sand between your toes, but that is called a vacation, not a livelihood.

“Math will hurt their feelings, because math reminds everybody of the Last Judgment. The answer is right or wrong, and you can’t blow sunshine at it.” — Douglas Wilson, Keep Your Kids

Axiomatic, inexorable propositions do not care about your feelings. They are what they are whether you like them or not. They would be true whether you were ever born or not. They provide the foundation for everything else because they cannot be bent after the fact by how we feel about them. 

"Think what a totally different morality would mean. Think of a country where people were admired for running away in battle, or where a man felt proud of double-crossing all the people who had been kindest to him. You might just as well try to imagine a country where two and two made five." — C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

You cannot imagine a world where the math is as fickle as your heart. Fixed givens are needed. Up and down, top to bottom, and left to right all depend on the reliable opposition. What would left be if right sometimes wasn't?

Facts do not care about your feelings. However you may feel about that, it is what gives you the ability to feel something about the facts themselves instead of all your feelings being focused on the seasickness of being constantly tossed by the waves of post-modernism.