A taste of what is perfect

"When you've had a taste - even if it's only a taste - of what's perfect, it's hard, ain't it, to settle for anything less?" (from Traveller, by Richard Adams)

This is a novel about the famous horse of General Robert E. Lee, told from the horse's perspective. This line is spoken by Traveller after he had been ridden the second time by the General, but before he became the General's horse.


Perhaps the author did not intend it, but he made a very profound statement about what Scripture calls the "earnest of our inheritance," that is, the foretaste of heaven which is given us in this life by and through the Spirit, and the yearning it gives us for our heavenly home.