In addition to attempting to conquer a book or so a week, I've been picking up this book here and there...
It's set up like a devotional, a reading for each day of the year. You get little excerpts from C.S. Lewis' works. And trust me, each day leaves you with quite a bit to think about. I'm wondering if I ever attempt to pick up one of C.S. Lewis' weightier books whether my brain might explode.
So anyway, these bite size snippets are really good, and enough to get a busy mom thinking. Yesterday's reading really hit me. Here's a bit of it...
"We want, in fact, not so much a Father in Heaven as a grandfather in heaven--a senile benevolence who, as they say, 'liked to see young people enjoying themselves', and whose plan for the universe was simply that it might be truly said at the end of each day, 'a good time was had by all'. Not many people, I admit, would formulate a theology in precisely those terms: but a conception not very different lurks at the back of many minds. I do not claim to be an exception: I should very much like to live in a universe which was governed on such lines. But since it is abundantly clear that I don't, and since I have reason to believe, nevertheless, that God is Love, I conclude that my conception of love needs correction." --from The Problem Of Pain
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That C.S. Lewis. Sure knows how to make a point, and make it well. I sat here nodding at the screen as I read it thinking, "Yep. That's me. I want a grand-pa God." But the truth is that the God we have is so much better even than grand-pa. So very rich in love and grace for us.
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