Nothing actually stands between saying, “The river sang,” and “It was as if the river sang,” other than a set of rigid rules that forbids the former from being more than a metaphor. -Fr. Stephen Freeman
Monday, November 02, 2009
C.S. Lewis weighs in
"Don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion," he wrote in A Grief Observed, "or I shall suspect that you don't understand."
(I just read this in an article on life after death and had to share it.)
Funny, I was thinking last time when you said you were glad I knew of Christians who didn't take the simplistic and glib line, 'well, there's you and CS Lewis for a start...'
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Funny, I was thinking last time when you said you were glad I knew of Christians who didn't take the simplistic and glib line, 'well, there's you and CS Lewis for a start...'
Well, that is pretty funny! I am so thankful for Clive Staples. From fifth grade on, he's had a lot to do with how I see things.
(I read A Grief Observed, but I read it too young. I need to read it again, now that I have some life to go along with the reading.)
(Life and death, perhaps I ought to have put it.)
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