My late great friend, Bill
White, was a premier C.S. Lewis scholar. [He once took us to lunch at The Eagle
and Child inn, where Lewis and Tolkein and Charles Williams and the other
“Inklings” gathered each afternoon. That was a fun day!]
In The Image of Man in C.S. Lewis, Bill points out [page 199] that
Lewis believed that every person is immortal, and so every individual is more
important than any political or religious entity on earth because each of those
lasts but a moment in time. A heartening thought for our age.
I find that
incomprehensible, about everyone being immortal, which probably means it is
true, because my comprehending abilities are really limited! Yours may be, too.
It’s always good to be
reminded by Lewis on this topic: “You are not a body that has a soul; you are a
soul that has a body.”
And using the word “but”
in the way I did in the last line of the first paragraph reminds me of the
preacher doing the pastoral prayer in church and intoning, “Lord, we are but
dust…” and would have continued but was unable to when a little voice piped up
and said, “Mommy, what’s butt dust?”
John Robert McFarland
No, these are just random thoughts—doesn’t
count as writing.
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