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- The song was inspired when a friend of the band’s daughter lost her baby to miscarriage. The lyrics express the sorrow and pain of what could have been, as they mention, “today could’ve been the day that you blow out your candles.” It strikes a chord with anyone who has experienced a similar loss, making it a powerful anthem of grief.
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Apr 24, 2019 · “You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you,” writes C. S. Lewis in A Grief Observed. It’s a moment of epiphany,...
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A Grief Observed is a collection of C. S. Lewis's reflections on his experience of bereavement following the death of his wife, Joy Davidman, in 1960. The book was published in 1961 under the pseudonym N.W. Clerk because Lewis wished to avoid the connection.
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.
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.
Jan 24, 2015 · For a fuller account of how Lewis ultimately came to an understanding, read his poignant and searing little book A Grief Observed. Three months after losing Joy, he wrote to Chad Walsh and his wife. Walsh was an American professor who had written the first analytical book about Lewis back in the 1940s— C. S. Lewis: Apostle to the Skeptics .
Mar 1, 2013 · Writing the book A Grief Observed was the one therapy that helped C.S. Lewis cope following the death of his wife, Helen Joy Davidman (“H.” in the book). Here C.S. Lewis–Atlanta Teaching Fellow and apologist, Jana Harmon, shares some insights on this great classic work of Lewis.
Apr 20, 2017 · To cope with his grief, Lewis kept a journal that was published the year after his wife died, in 1961. Lewis requested a pseudonym to be used for the book, A Grief Observed, to maintain anonymity given its themes.
