5/15/2023 0 Comments A grief observed sparknotesBut, he knows God is there even in the silence. He questions whether he is using God to get to Joy in the life to come and knows that God is the end and not a means. And, as he says, it’s not his idea of God, but God himself. … And this, not any image or memory, is what we are to love still, after she is dead.” In other words, it’s not any idea of Joy but Joy. “The earthly beloved,” he says, “even in this life, incessantly triumphs over your mere idea of her. It might seem odd that Lewis entangles Joy’s passing with his interpretation of things like the Incarnation when God broke down all the ideas of how Messiah might come, but he lands at a simple statement: “All reality is iconoclastic.” He knows too that Jesus is more than the wafer at Sunday’s service and more than he can fathom. Lewis knows that Joy is more than his memory, more than the photograph that links his mind to a part of her. Healing does come, though it is snared by the inadequacies of our five senses and the trappings of them.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |