{"id":6615,"date":"2014-10-02T09:15:57","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T16:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=6615"},"modified":"2014-10-02T09:15:57","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T16:15:57","slug":"c-s-lewis-in-my-inbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=6615","title":{"rendered":"C.S. Lewis in My Inbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was in my inbox this morning for my daily portion of C.S. Lewis&#8217; writings.  It&#8217;s from <u>A Grief Observed<\/u> which is probably the best book I&#8217;ve read on grief:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2018It was too perfect to last,\u2019 so I am tempted to say of our marriage. But it can be meant in two ways. It may be grimly pessimistic \u2014 as if God no sooner saw two of His creatures happy than He stopped it (\u2018None of that here!\u2019). As if He were like the Hostess at the sherry-party who separates two guests the moment they show signs of having got into a real conversation. But it could also mean \u2018This had reached its proper perfection. This had become what it had in it to be. Therefore of course it would not be prolonged.\u2019 As if God said, \u2018Good; you have mastered that exercise. I am very pleased with it. And now you are ready to go on to the next.\u2019 When you have learned to do quadratics and enjoy doing them you will not be set them much longer. The teacher moves you on.<\/p>\n<p>For we did learn and achieve something. There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them. It is arrogance in us to call frankness, fairness, and chivalry \u2018masculine\u2019 when we see them in a woman; it is arrogance in them to describe a man\u2019s sensitiveness or tact or tenderness as \u2018feminine.\u2019 But also what poor, warped fragments of humanity most mere men and mere women must be to make the implications of that arrogance plausible. Marriage heals this. Jointly the two become fully human.  \u2018In the image of God created He them.\u2019 Thus, by a paradox, this carnival of sexuality leads us out beyond our sexes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was in my inbox this morning for my daily portion of C.S. Lewis&#8217; writings. It&#8217;s from A Grief Observed which is probably the best book I&#8217;ve read on grief: \u2018It was too perfect to last,\u2019 so I am tempted &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=6615\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","category-faith","category-family"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p38xoO-1IH","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6616,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6615\/revisions\/6616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}