I've been reading my way through C.S. Lewis' collected letters, and I enjoyed reading this letter of consolation and encouragement to a friend:
"I am sorry to hear that your (temporal) news is so grim. Your spiritual news is perhaps better than you think. You seem to have been dealing with the dryness (or 'the wall' as you well name it) in the right way. Everone has experienced it or will...It is v. important to remember that Our Lord experienced it to the full, twice-- in Gethsemane when He sweated blood, and the next day when he said 'Why hast thou forsaken me? We are not asked to go anywhere where he has not gone before us. The shining quality may come back when we least expect it, and in circumstances which wd. seem to an outside observer (or to ourselves) to make it most impossible..."
"What is most re-assuring to me, and most moving, is your sane and charitable recognition that others have as great, or worse, trials: one of those things wh. no one else can decently say to the sufferer but wh. are invaluable when he says them to himself...You are quite right when you say I needn't 'work up' sympathy with you! No, I needn't. I have had enough experiences of the crises of family life, the terrors, despondencies, hopes deferred, and weariness. The trouble is that things go on so long, isn't it and one gets so tired of trying! No doubt it will all seem short when looked at from eternity...Keep on. Take it hour by hour, don't add the past & the future to the present load more than you can help. God bless you all."
About Me
- Drs. Fernette and Brock Eide
- Neurolearning is an approach to assessing learning differences developed by Drs. Brock and Fernette Eide. It combines the best of classical neurology, cognitive neuroscience, and education. The Eide are directors of the Eide Neurolearning Clinic and authors of The Mislabeled Child and The Dyslexic Advantage.
