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Are not all lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling of that something which you were born desiring, and which, beneath the flux of other desires and in all the momentary silences between the louder passions, night and day, year by year, from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for, listening for?

—The Problem of Pain

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05.13.2013

Are You Attached to God?

Lewis to Joyce Pearce in Collected Letters Volume 2, July 20, 1943: It is to me inconceivable that Nature as we see it is either what God intended or merely evil: it looks like a good thing spoiled.

05.06.2013

Any Winged Horses Out There?

The note in A Year with C.S. Lewis for May 11 indicates that Lewis met J.R.R. Tolkien this day in 1926. It's apropos then to reflect on a selection from Mere Christianity about the Christ's salvific work to make us new creatures, not simply nicer people.

05.02.2013

Jack in Retrospect Monthly - May

by William O'Flaherty
The first Christian book, first academic title, last apologetic work and a Narnian prequel top the list of books published during Lewis's lifetime in the month of May. Two more books were also released after his death this month and his first claim to fame in the U.S. had its beginning in 1941 during this period.