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C.S. Lewis A Grief Observed

What 's in a Name

C .S . Lewis had one of the most intriguing relationships with God . There are those who relegate their religion to some denomination or to a particular experience in time . Lewis , however , did not do so . Traveling through time as a lone sailor on a contextual sea gave him an appreciation for the troubles of life . After youth had passed him by and discovering that it was so , he happened ) to meet a woman whose name was appropriately Joy ' Imagine what it was like to be in your 60

's and just now experiencing what love could bring into a life . Lewis knew God in a very practical way

To say that he was angry with God when his wife died would be an understatement . But to say he renounced his faith because of it would be an outright fabrication . Lewis discovered something about himself he had to this point not realized : he truly had a relationship with God . One that would let him argue , be angry , question incessantly , and expect a reciprocal experience . Not many people are brave enough to do this Lewis learned that his life was not based on the principles of right and wrong , but on the principles of life and death . Death taught Lewis what he needed to know about life . In a moment when his heart was failing him he fell into a coma , which some would say , gave him an eye to eye encounter with God . Lewis said , It would have been a luxuriously easy passage and one almost regrets having the door shut in one 's face . To be brought back to life and have all one 's dying to do again was rather hard ' I believe it was at this point Lewis understood he had something not many people had a true heart to heart relationship with God...

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