Tuesdays with Morrie, by Mitch Alborn.#

"In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive, right? And at the end of life, when you get like me, you need others to sruvive, right?"

His voice dropped to a whisper. "But here's the secret: in between, we need others as well." [p. 157]

A Grief Observed, by C. S. Lewis, is the record of Lewis' journal writings after his wife died.#

Some quotes:#

Loss and the attention of God:#

Meanwhile, where is God? This is one of the most disquiting symptoms. When you are happy, so happy that you have nosense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel His claims upon you as an iterruption, if you remember yourself and turn to Him with gratitude and praise, you will be---or so it feels---welcomed with open arms. But go to Him when your need is desperate, when all other help is vain, and what do you find? A door slammed in your face, and a sound of bolting and double bolting on the inside. After that, silenc. You may as well turn away. The longer you wait, the more emphatic the silence will become. There are no lights in the windows. It might be an empty house. Was it ever inhabited? it seemed so once. And that seeming was as strong as this. What can this mean? Why is He so present a commander in our time of prosperity and so very abent a help in time of trouble? [p. 6]

On his wife:#

Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything. [p. 11]

Fear of God:#

What do people mean when they say, "I am not afraid of God because I know He is good"? Have they never even been to a dentist? [p. 43]

Miracle of Love:#

For this is one of the miracles of love; it gives---to both, but perhaps espeically to the woman---a power of seeing through its own enchanments and yet not being disenchanted. [p. 72]

Perelandra, by C. S. Lewis, is the second part of the Space Trilogy, of which Out of the Silent Planet is the first part.#

The book was interesting and it reminded me very much of The Problem of Pain and Miracles. Essentially, it tells the story of The Fall and about Eve's resistent to Satan. The depiction of Satan is amazing.#