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It's been a long week
Feb. 1st, 2024 09:34 pmAnd it isn't over yet! Not sure why it's taken forever to get to Thursday...
I finished 'The Problem of Pain' and it's certainly given me a lot to think about. I think Lewis is saying that the purpose of suffering is to make us realise we only have God to fall back on at the end of the day, which has certainly been my experience. There was a time when I felt I had solid ground under my feet and then shit happened and I found myself adrift on an endless ocean clinging to a raft that was just big enough to hold me. And I've never quite made it back to solid ground but my faith in my tiny raft has grown with each subsequent round of enormous waves that have tried to capsize me. I could never have coped with the last quarter of 2022 without those previous experiences.
Next up is 'The Screwtape Letters', which I am looking forward to. It's a long time since I last read it.
And I continue to enjoy 'Emma'. Poor, dear, self-deluded soul that she is.
I finished 'The Problem of Pain' and it's certainly given me a lot to think about. I think Lewis is saying that the purpose of suffering is to make us realise we only have God to fall back on at the end of the day, which has certainly been my experience. There was a time when I felt I had solid ground under my feet and then shit happened and I found myself adrift on an endless ocean clinging to a raft that was just big enough to hold me. And I've never quite made it back to solid ground but my faith in my tiny raft has grown with each subsequent round of enormous waves that have tried to capsize me. I could never have coped with the last quarter of 2022 without those previous experiences.
Next up is 'The Screwtape Letters', which I am looking forward to. It's a long time since I last read it.
And I continue to enjoy 'Emma'. Poor, dear, self-deluded soul that she is.
