Love: "Good Time Had by All"?

C.S. Lewis

What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happen to be doing, ‘What does it matter so long as they are contented?' We want, in fact, not so much a Father in Heaven as a grandfather in heaven—a senile benevolence who, as they say, ‘likes to see young people enjoying themselves' and whose plan for the universe was simply that it might be truly said at the end of each day, ‘a good time was had by all’. 

Not many people, I admit, would formulate a theology in precisely these terms: but a conception not very different lurks at the back of many minds. I do not claim to be an exception: I should very much like to live in a universe which was governed on such lines.

But since it is abundantly clear that I don't, and since I have reason to believe, nevertheless, that God is love, I conclude that my conception of love needs correction.

The Business of Heaven, Daily Readings from CS Lewis