A Grief Observed
by C. S. Lewis
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Author: C. S. LewisEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Format: Large Print
Published: 1985-02
ISBN: 0802724701
Number of pages: 71
Publisher: Walker Large Print
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Book Review: How to overcome grief and God's silence
Summary: 5 Stars
In this genuine diary, C. S. lewis recall his journey of grief following his wife's death of a cancer. Four chapters for four stages of sorrow and recovery. Grief is a process and not a stage. Some may be mommified in the past memories, but Lewis refused to let another death take place in his life. His deep belief in God is not a consolation for a better place in paradise. Lewis express his anger, frustration to God who seems to be in "an empty house". Who knows if pain stops or continues after death? In the midst of our tears there's no place to hear God's answer because we are too self-centered with our pain. If our belief in God is like a "card house" then, let it fall apart. God must be trust for who He is and not for How we can use Him... Alain Lescart
Summary of A Grief Observed
This very personal anguished story of the death of Lewis's wife is reissued with a foreword by Madeleine L'Engle. The celebrated author shares an intenseaccount of the meaning of death with wit and insight.C.S. Lewis joined the human race when his wife, Joy Gresham, died of cancer. Lewis, the Oxford don whose Christian apologetics make it seem like he's got an answer for everything, experienced crushing doubt for the first time after his wife's tragic death. A Grief Observed contains his epigrammatic reflections on that period: "Your bid--for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity--will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high," Lewis writes. "Nothing will shake a man--or at any rate a man like me--out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself." This is the book that inspired the film Shadowlands, but it is more wrenching, more revelatory, and more real than the movie. It is a beautiful and unflinchingly honest record of how even a stalwart believer can lose all sense of meaning in the universe, and how he can gradually regain his bearings. --Michael Joseph Gross
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