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Apr 24, 2019 · C.S. Lewis helped me understand my grief—and reminded me why I write. “You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to ...
Jul 16, 2012 · Her death in 1960 triggered the writing of A Grief Observed. Lewis himself died in 1963. 2. Historical Context. Lewis’s marriage to Joy Davidman, a brilliant Jewish woman 16 years his junior, converted to Christianity, in part, because of Lewis’s writings, brought unexpected happiness into his life. To a friend Lewis wrote: “I never ...
Mar 1, 2013 · A Grief Observed. 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. Intense emotional pain.
C.S. Lewis on Grief. A psychiatrist friend maintains that, “All change involves loss, and loss involves grief, and grief involves pain.”. Since the events of September 11, 2001, there has been much change, loss, grief, and pain. There is a changed perception of our lives, a loss of a sense of safety and security, grief over those lost or ...
Oct 9, 2014 · Douglas Gresham, (Lewis's step-son), describes the book as “a stark recounting of one man’s studied attempts to come to grips with and in the end defeat the emotional paralysis of the most shattering grief of his life.” (1994 Introduction to A Grief Observed) This is the first sentence Lewis wrote in A Grief Observed: “No one ever told ...
Aug 20, 2014 · These laudatory quotes belie the overall tone of A Grief Observed, however. While the end is a happy one, the heart of this book includes the racking grief over the loss of a lover, the struggle with faith when God seems absent but is most needed, and the questioning of God’s goodness. Lewis put it this way: “Talk to me about the truth of ...
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BV4905.2.L4. 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. Though republished in 1963 under his own name after his death, the text ...
