I'm blogging early tonight, friends, as I actually feel plucky & writerly right now, so I thought I'd get to it.
My mind is fairly clear, so I'm slowly working on The Problem of Pain, and as with much C.S. Lewis non-fiction, I'm alternating head-scratching with vigorous highlighting. There are times when I just want to shake him (if shaking a dead man would produce any desirable results) and say, "What does this mean?! I think that you're just using a lot of words and not actually saying anything!" He's the pinnacle of academic mumbo-jumbo somtimes, I tell you. Quite often, though, the very next paragraph makes me get out the pen and the highlighter, and I underline and star and copy into my notes and read out loud to Seth. "Aha!" I think. "This is the answer to everything!"
Life with C.S. Lewis. What I'm doing for my paper is taking The Problem of Pain and A Grief Observed and comparing them, trying to get a picture of his theodicy over time. I've read AGO a few times, and I love it. It is what you read in the depths of despair because it comforts you to know that someone who seemed to have it all figured out felt many of the same things. Screamed and cried and wanted to tear God apart out of their pain. This is my first time reading TPOP, and I'm learning a lot from it. It seems that maybe this is to read more distanced from the grief, either before or after. Things to remember and hold onto when it's time to move on. Time to get back into life and re-engage with God and his goodness.
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