A Grief Observed
by C. S. Lewis
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Author: C. S. LewisBrand: Harper Collins Publishers
Foreword: Madeleine L'Engle
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Format: Deckle Edge
Published: 2001-02-06
ISBN: 0060652381
Number of pages: 76
Publisher: HarperOne
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- ISBN13: 9780060652388
- Condition: New
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Book Review: "A tender heart, a steel-edged mind"
Summary: 5 Stars
In A Grief Observed, the heart of C.S. Lewis has been peeled away, revealing its tender, fragile core--the tender fragile core of a man who fully loved a woman.
Lewis writes, "The act of living is different all through. Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything." (p. 11) Through these few words, Lewis captures for us the depth and breadth of his loss; it is above him, all around him, inescapable.
Added to his longing for his beloved Joy, is his almost palpable grief. "I not only live each endless day in grief," writes Lewis, `but live each day thinking about living each day in grief." (p. 10) Such emotional words, coming from a man devoured by grief, a man who usually writes such logically-driven, clear-headed theological expositions.
And so is revealed to us C.S. Lewis, the man.
Yet even in this time of immense loss, immense sadness, his faculties do not desert him. Lewis' sharp mind cuts through his grief, to once again to dissect theological concepts. Once such concept Lewis dissects is the reality of suffering as it relates to the nature of God.
Lewis says "The more we believe that God hurts only to heal, the less we can believe that there is any use in begging for tenderness." (p.43) Lewis then concludes that God must be a surgeon. "But suppose that what you are up against is a surgeon whose intentions are wholly good. The kinder and more conscientious he is, the more inexorably he will go on cutting." (p.43)
With his rapier-sharp mind, Lewis slices away dead dogma to reveal a sliver of the living truth: God is a surgeon who allows suffering for our healing.
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