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Two of the last things she said were, “You have made me happy,” and “I am at peace with God.” A Grief Observed. The loss of Joy plunged Lewis into the depths of grief and pain. Following Joy’s death, Lewis kept a journal and wrote down his thoughts because he was personally helped by doing so—with no intent of publication.
- “The death of a beloved is an amputation.”
- “I see people, as they approach me, trying to make up their minds whether they’ll ‘say something about it’ or not. I hate if they do, and if they don’t.”
- “For in grief nothing ‘stays put.’ One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral?
- “It is hard to have patience with people who say, ‘There is no death’ or ‘Death doesn’t matter.’ There is death. And it matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible.
Jul 16, 2012 · When Joy died, Lewis’s brave words melted down into Grief, a composition that simply reproduces the four handwritten journals Lewis wrote in an attempt to work through his pain. Initially published under a pseudonym, N. W. Clerk, friends began giving the book to Lewis, thinking it might help him.
Dec 2, 2016 · It is quite another thing to come to grips with the untimely death of one that you love more than any other. In this work, Lewis cries out at the beginning of his journal that God has shut the door on him; He offers no comfort nor explanation for the death of his Joy! How can a loving God be so cruel?
Mar 22, 2021 · Lewis is a precise and scrupulously honest chronicler of his own thoughts, and the result is a portrait of a mind in the throes of very personal grief, which is why it is perhaps strange that...
Apr 30, 2014 · Not doing these things in order to be saved, but because He has begun to save you already. Not hoping to get to Heaven as a reward for your actions, but inevitably wanting to act in a certain way because a first faint gleam of Heaven is already inside you.”. ― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity.
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