And again...

Thought I’d proclaim the glories of C.S. Lewis one more time. He deserves it.

This time i have to express my profound appreciation for The Great Divorce. I simply can’t think of another book (aside from the obvious) that gives me more longing for heaven or more desire to turn from sin.

Here’s a little of the best stuff:


“When did we put up one moment’s real resistance to the loss of our faith?”

“’Listen!’ Said the White Spirit. ‘Once you were a child. Once you knew what inquiry was for. There was a time when you asked questions because you wanted answers, and were glad when you found them. Become that child again: even now.’
‘Ah, but when I became a man I put away childish things.’
‘You have gone far wrong. Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth. What you now call the free play of inquiry has neither more nor less to do with the ends for which intelligence was given you than masturbation has to do with marriage.’”

“The Ghost made a sound something between a sob and a snarl. ‘I wish I’d never been born,’ it said. ‘What are we born for?’
‘For infinite happiness,’ said the Spirit. ‘You can step out into it at any moment.’”

“Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace, is drawn away from love of the thing he tells, to love of the telling, till, down in Deep Hell, they cannot be interested in God at all but only in what they say about Him.”

“I do not know if I ever saw anything more terrible than the struggle of that Dwarf Ghost against joy.”

“’The morning, the morning!!’ I cried. ‘I am caught by the morning and I am a ghost!’”


Well that’s enough I suppose. I was thinking of actually just typing the entire book word for word over my next 300 posts, but I’ll spare you. Read it!

In other news, is anybody watching the World Cup? I’ve really enjoyed following it so far, but I’m a little disappointed at our boys, who lost 0-3 to the Czech Republic and tied Italy.

I guess Italy should have gone our way, really. The Ref called back a shot. So that must mean it shouldn’t have been. :)

We play Ghana tomorrow, but I think we have to beat them by 3,000 points in order to advance to the next round, and Ghana beat the Czechs, so… hmm…

Oh, and by the way, I went to the same high school as Eddie Pope. That’s right, the guy who got red-carded out of the Italy game. Again, this was the same ref who called back our second goal. Who does this guy think he is?