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I do believe that I will start a new blog tradition for Sundays
entitled C.S. Lewis Sundays. I do so enjoy the writings and
thought processes of the late Lewis. While reading this evening I
happened upon a laugh-out-loud funny of Lewis' that I must share from The Letters of C.S. Lewis to Arthur Greeves:
"Minto
told you about our present bother. The guests are still here, and
will be, so far as I can see, until the end of January. Oh
Arthur, what a snag it is that the people who are pitiable are not necessarily likeable.
Molly Askins is emphatically one of those people of whom old
Foord-Kelsie said 'We must learn to love those whom we can't
like.' She's what you would call an encroaching person-do you
know the type of small, dark woman with big gentle eyes and soft voice,
who just gently and softly and even pathetically gets her own way in
everything and really treats the house as a hotel? However, the
thing's a duty and there's an end of it: tho, by the bye as W. [Lewis's
brother Warren] and I were saying the other day, the New Testament
tells us to visit the widows, not to let them visit us!"
And because it is the first entry...the "grand entrance" of this
feature, I must add a second that brought a new perspective of the
glory we receive through our Savior. From Miracles:
"For God is not merely mending, not simply restoring a status quo. Redeemed humanity is to be something more glorious than unfallen humanity."
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• Oct. 10, 2005 - Shadowlands