I've been "Kindleing" my way through "
Yours, Jack", an incredible collection of the correspondence of C.S. Lewis (see Currently Reading at
jeffcranston.com). The book's back cover describes its contents:
C.S. Lewis spent a good portion of each day corresponding with, over his lifetime, thousands of people to whom he served as a spiritual director, giving advice on the Christian life. His letters are currently only available in their entirety--a collection consisting of three hefty tomes. This format of inspirational readings culled from C. S. Lewis's famous letters offers an easier to digest look at this great author and spiritual leader's lifetime of correspondence.
One passage particularly struck me recently and I wanted to share it with you:
The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own 'or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life - the life God is sending one day by one day: what one calls one's 'real life' is a phantom of one's own imagination. This at least is what I see at moments of insight: but it's hard to remember it all the time..."
