Feb

26

2011

Trevin Wax|3:22 am CT

C.S. Lewis on Life's Interruptions
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“The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one’s ‘own’, or ‘real’ life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one’s real life – the life God is sending one day by day: what one calls one’s ‘real life’ is a phantom of one’s own imagination.”

(from a 1943 letter from C.S. Lewis, included in Yours, Jack: Spiritual Direction from C.S. Lewis)

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  1. Weekly Links (5/6/2011) « The Beacon
    May 9, 2011 at 5:09 am

    [...] HT: Trevin Wax [...]

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  2. Weekly Links (5/6/2011) « The Beacon
    November 28, 2012 at 7:55 am

    [...] Weekly Links (5/6/2011) The great thing, if one can, is to stop regard­ing all the unpleas­ant things as inter­rup­tions of one’s ‘own’, or ‘real’ life. The truth is of course that what one calls the inter­rup­tions are pre­cisely one’s real life – the life God is send­ing one day by day: what one calls one’s ‘real life’ is a phan­tom of one’s own imag­i­na­tion. (CS Lewis, Yours, Jack: Spiritual Direction from CS Lewis. HT: Trevin Wax) [...]

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