I live in a culture that is full of people that seek normality (if such a word exists). The status by which we are considered to meet the social expectations of the status quo. I see it in the church. It seems that the underlying goal is to be liked instead of being real. Of course, to be real is to reflect Reality Himself. So, when I read this passage from C.S. Lewis, it comes as a breath of fresh conviction and encouragement. Conviction to not set my eyes on the things of this world and encouragement to set my eyes on the Author and Perfector of our faith.

"Medicine labours to restore 'natural' structure or 'normal' function. But greed, egoism, self-deception and self-pity are not unnatural or abnormal in the same sense as astigmatism or a floating kidney. For who, in Heaven's name, would describe as natural or normal the man from whom these failings were wholly absent? 'Natural', if you like, in a quite different sense; archnatural, unfallen. We have seen only one such Man. And He was not at all like the psychologist's picture of the integrated, balanced, adjusted, happily married, employed, popular citizen. You can't really be very well 'adjusted' to your world if it says you 'have a devil' and ends by nailing you up naked to a stake of wood."

P.S. - Normality - n. conforming to a standard.