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Tag Archives: reality
IN TOUCH DAILY: MARCH 2
Feeling Hopeless Acts 27:1-25 People disappoint us, circumstances cause pain, and our own limitations lead to frustration. Jesus told His disciples that struggles are part of this life (John 16:33), and many other Bible stories show evidence of this reality. … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: SEPTEMBER 19
When I attempted . . . to describe our spiritual longings, I was omitting one of their most curious characteristics. We usually notice it just as the moment of vision dies away, as the music ends, or as the landscape … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: AUGUST 15
Screwtape strategizes with Wormwood, using Time as a weapon: I had noticed, of course, that the humans were having a lull in their European war—what they naïvely call ‘The War’!—and am not surprised that there is a corresponding lull in … Continue reading
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Tagged actuality, anxieties, c s lewis, conscience, cross, enemy, eternal union, eternity, european war, experience, freedom, giving thanks, grace, humans, lull, meditating, present, present moment, present pleasure, reality, screwtape, separation, stupid confidence, the screwtape letters, the war, time, tortured fear, weapon, wormwood, worried
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: JULY 17
Fasnacht was once more proof how little purely intellectual power avail to make a big man. I thought that he had not lived a single one of his theories: he had worked them with his brain but not with his … Continue reading
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Tagged all my road before me, c s lewis, fasnacht, idealistic nihilism, intellectual power, nonsense, pressure, reality, remarkable, suicide, theories
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: JULY 5
“I see I’m making myself unpopular,” [Scudamour] went on, “just as Dr Ransom did the other day. Well, I dare say I am rather poor company at present. You will wait till you see yourselves in Othertime, and we’ll find … Continue reading
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Tagged c s lewis, dangerous, devils, dr ransom, fouler, hell, meaner, ordinary world, othertime, real universe, reality, religion, science, scientific discovery, scudamour, the dark tower, unpopular, witches
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: MAY 18
Lewis, grieving the death of his wife, Joy: I know that the thing I want is exactly the thing I can never get. The old life, the jokes, the drinks, the arguments, the lovemaking, the tiny, heartbreaking commonplace. On any … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: MAY 12
Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already. That is why children’s games are so important. They are always pretending to be grown-ups—playing soldiers, playing shop. But … Continue reading
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Tagged a year with c s lewis, c s lewis, children, Christ, dressing up, games, grow up, grown ups, mere Christianity, prayers, pretence, pretending, reality, Son of God
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