I sympathize most deeply with you on the loss of Fr. Louis. But for good as well as for ill one never knows what is coming next. You remember the Imitation says ‘Bear your cross, for if you try to get rid of it you will probably find another and worse one.’ But there is a brighter side to the same principle. When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
All blessings and sympathy.
From The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III
Compiled in Yours, Jack
Compiled in Yours, Jack
The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis, Volume III: Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy 1950-1963. Copyright © 2007 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers. Yours, Jack: Spiritual Direction from C. S. Lewis. Copyright © 2008 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
To find the blessings hidden in our pain and suffering, we must be continually looking for them and being grateful for them. And this is among the hardest things for us to do, especially when wracked by grievous hurt.
We are best able to keep looking and being grateful when our faith gives us the hope which blesses us with endurance to persevere while turning us into the children of God we were created to be.
In this process, the blessings reveal themselves according to God’s will as the good which can be found through our suffering. And we, persevering through our pain in this way, grow more like children of God. That is the greatest blessing of all.
On the lookout,
Z gardener
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