Tag: C.S. Lewis
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What death may mean
Oftentimes during life or at the end of life, there is a need to believe. The alternative — the void, the emptiness — become too much. Too many loved ones have died. The shotgun awaits. You resist it. You cry out for help.
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A miracle happened last night
I have been snowed in for two days. When the Nor’easter began to ease up Thursday afternoon I went outside and waded through a foot-and-a-half of snow…
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‘A Grief Observed’ — and Shared
In memoriam and with personal gratitude to the Christian author C.S. Lewis who died on November 22, 1963. My gratitude is for his book ‘A Grief Observed.’
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Everything is the way she left it
The red coat she wore on the last day of her life is still in the closet. And her jackets and dresses. Her shoes and boots. Her blouses and other garments are in the chest of drawers.
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God is a funny guy
“Is God a clown who whips away your bowl of soup one moment in order, next moment, to replace it with another bowl of the same soup? Even nature isn’t such a clown as that.”
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God or Cosmic Sadist?
“God seems to be absent at our greatest need, because he is absent — non-existent.” Even Christ on the cross said, “Why hast though forsaken me?”
Mary Saves the Day 