"Membership in the family of God is neither inconsequential or something to be casually ignored. The church is God's agenda for the world. Jesus said, "I will build my church, and all the powers of hell will not conquer it." The church is indestructable and will exist for eternity. It will outlive this universe, and so will your role in it."
- Rick Warren
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
From Lars over at Brandywine Books:
Amen.In their way, these last weeks were not unhappy. Joy had left us, and once again-as in the earliest days-we could turn for comfort only to each other. The wheel had come full circle: once again we were together in the little end room at home, shutting out from our talk the ever-present knowledge that the holidays were ending, that a new term fraught with unknown possibilities awaited us both.Every year at this time I note the anniversary of the death of C. S. Lewis in 1963. There's been a lot of speculation in recent years as to exactly when it was that Western Civilization began to collapse. Some choose the year 1968, the year the Counterculture came into its own in America, but others fix the date in 1963, when Kennedy was assassinated. I tend to go with 1963, but because that was the year we lost Lewis, not Kennedy.
(Warren Lewis, on the last days of his brother C. S. Lewis, from his Memoir published in The Letters of C. S. Lewis [1966].)
One way or the other, it's been downhill ever since.
Lars' words have me reminiscing about one of the highlights of my life: Tea at the Kilns.
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Comments on ""Men Must Endure Their Going Hence"":
3. Michele
- 11/23/2011 5:57 pm CST
Not only the year we lost Lewis, but the day. When I was a new Christian, before I'd read Lewis, I remember seeing a book in the Christian bookstore, the plot being, what Lewis, Kennedy and Huxley's conversation was, as they awaited judgement together. Have you ever heard of it?
Thank you for the lovely reminder of a precious brother.
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god woke me up in 1974. i went from professing atheist to true believer. but it wasn't until i began to read lewis that i became grounded in rational thought. he is a convincer. as g. k. chesterton put it: "the object of opening the mind as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid."