Sublime

FRIENDSHIP In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all his facets. Now that Charles is dead, I shall never again see Ronald’s reaction to a specifically Caroline joke. Far from having more of

But the longer he wrote, the more advice he had about the way we ought to live

Do not fear, for I am with you;

For reflection: Lamentations 1:16 It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort; it’s not the sort of comfort they supply there. —from a letter to Sir Henry Willink, December 3, 1959

C. S. Lewis said, Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one. . . . Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries: avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket — saf

Let me hear joy and gladness;

For reflection: Judges 16:15–18 Virtue—even attempted virtue—brings light; indulgence brings fog. —from Mere Christianity

continue the slow, perpetual rebuilding of that inner structure which, in his view, it was the main purpose of life to rebuild.