Throughout the Confessions, love and wisdom, the desire to love and be loved, and his love for his mistress, are all driving forces for Augustine's desire to find peace in God. Augustine uses love as his gate to God's grace. Augustine often experiences darkness, blindness, and confusion while attempting to find harmony in God, but he knows that when he eventually finds Him, his restless heart will be saved. Beginging in his early childhood years, he struggled with a uneasy heart because he had to live in two different worlds. These worlds consisted of that of his mother's

religious faith, and the world of everything else. These two worlds confused and disturbed Augustine as a child. In his mother's world, talk consisted of Christ the Savior and about the mighty God who helps us especially to go to heaven. In the materialistic world, talk was about achieving greatness. It seems that if he were to live in both of these worlds, his life would turn out to be nothing. He believed that he would not accomplish anything he would be remembered for. He became unhappy with the idea of his life amounting to nothing. This is why Augustine turned to love. He felt that love might render a direct purpose in life and would help him through his conversion.

The Confessions is the story about conversion to Christianity. This conversion took place in the garden; a conversion that took place from the time he read Cicero at age eighteen; a conversion that took place across his whole life. The story was not just of having arrived at a certain point, but also of the long way around to get there. Love played a significant role in this conversion. The old restless heart that Augustine once had finally found peace and rest in God. It helped guide him towards God and Christ in a positive way that it influenced the rest of his life.

Augustine discovered the redirection of his scattered loves first by waking to an overwhelming desire to find the truth, especially about his personal situation. His desire to know wisdom, which was activated by Cicero, brought about a new love for Christ, the Word or truth of God. Full engagement with the love of Christ was still yet to come for Augustine. His mind was still not at peace or satisfied with any one direction. Probably the most important and influential form of love that Augustine had was love for God and love for Christ. Augustine started to realize the important roles that Christ and God played in his life. Augustine saw a whole new realm and he opened his life up to God more and more each day by talking to him and letting him now that he loved him very much. Augustine states, "Then, O Lord, you

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