Thoughts on The Screwtape Letters
Recently, while reading C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters , I came across this quote, and it stopped me dead in my tracks: “We want him to be in the maximum uncertainty, so that his mind will be filled with contradictory pictures of the future, every one of which arouses hope or fear.” And I thought: Imagine if C.S. Lewis— one of the most influential Christian thinkers of his day (and of all time, perhaps?)— listened to the naysayers- and was choked up, grabbed and threatened, and crippled from writing, because of fear? This book suggests that certainly, that would have been a sinful temptation. To not hold out, to not radiate truth in spite of- or rather, because of- the spirit of negativity? That would be giving in, and not holding out. It might even mean giving up, defeated because of a feeling. There are all kinds of dryness. And truly daily, I feel crippled by a thousand things. Spiritual dryness. Selfishness. {Read the rest at Picture a Skyline }