As To The Lord
The work of a Beethoven, and the work of a charwoman [cleaning lady], become spiritual on precisely the same condition, that of being offered to God, of being done humbly “as to the Lord.” This does not, of course, mean that it is for anyone a mere toss up whether he should sweep rooms or…
Continue readingIs Christianity Hard or Easy? – an excerpt from Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
No preamble or discussion required. The ordinary idea which we all have before we become Christians is this. We take as a starting point our ordinary self with its various desires and interests. We then admit that something else – call it ‘morality’ or ‘decent behaviour’, or ‘the good of society’ – has claims on…
Continue readingHome, Hard To Say What It Is
I once again find myself thinking about the concept of home. Home is so much more than a house or a city or a family or a marriage or a collection of people with whom we feel an affinity. Home is at the deepest core of what it means to be human. Coyotes have dens…
Continue readingWhat Every Creative Person Needs to Hear
“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.” ― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
Continue readingFollow-up to “Imagination”
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. – Thomas A. Edison.
Continue readingImagination
Many of us spend very little time cultivating our imagination. The early twenty-first century was expected to give us more leisure time as automated devices freed us up from household chores. But instead the pace of life has robbed us of quiet times to dream and create. Add to this the fact that we have…
Continue readingQuotations
“I always have a quotation for everything – it saves original thinking.” – Lord Peter Wimsey (a character in Dorothy L. Sayers’ detective novels)
Continue readingHell
In light of recent controversies about hell, I found these words by C.S. Lewis, in his book, The Great Divorce, to be rather helpful. There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, “Thy will be done,” and those to whom God says, in the end, “Thy will be…
Continue readingEverything
“Everything is a subject on which there is not much to be said.” C.S. Lewis
Continue readingTill We Have Faces
I just finished re-reading Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis. What an amazing book! It is hard to descibe what an effect this book has on a person but let me leave you with three quotes. The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find…
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