5/18/2023 0 Comments Cs lewis book a grief observed![]() ![]() I fear the language of beauty has been deployed to trap us in systems of abuse. In a culture so heavily invested in denying responsibility for the pain it has caused in order to preserve itself, they seem dangerous. ![]() The old tropes of beauty in brokenness, wounded healers and cracks letting the light in seem pathetically thin in response to this kind of brokenness. ![]() Epiphany sounds too hopeful, too certain, at a time when I find myself, like Lewis at the time of his writing, questioning everything I thought I knew.Ī career spiritual writer, I suddenly find the vocabulary of my genre shallow and even repugnant. It’s a moment of epiphany, or, as I prefer to call it, a smackdown. “You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you,” writes C. ![]()
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