Gathering Books
Filed under: Fall and Winter in the Mountains
The forecast for the next couple of days is rain and then more rain. I can’t explain it; but when this happens, I find myself wanting to gather up all my C.S. Lewis books and go some place alone to read, study, and think. Oh, I need to think these days and listen for the Lord’s words of encouragement.
Meanwhile, here’s another quote from Lewis that was written to a friend: “I’m all for a planet without aches or pains or financial worries, but I doubt if I’d care for one of pure intelligence. No senses (no relish of smells, tastes), no affection, no nonsense. I must have a little fooling. I want to tickle a cat’s ears and sometimes have a slugging match with an impertinent squirrel. My lecture has proved a best seller and I’ve no copies left. . . . You’ve got it nearly right: the only error being that instead of saying the Great Divide came between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, I said at great length and emphatically that it didn’t. But of course ‘not’ s a very small word and one can’t get every fine shade just right!”
There was such a real and practical side to Lewis. May the same thing be true of me and of you.







