Tag: #Joy

Why I Believe: C.S. Lewis and Me – Part One

Posted with permission from MitchTeemly’s blog ‘The Power of Story’, this is a fascinating 3 part read that tags one of my all time favourite writers C.S.Lewis and ofcourse ‘The Hound of Heaven’:

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The truth that compelled me to journey from atheism to faith

“I began to think of my longing for God as a hunger for a flavor that didn’t exist. Which seemed odd. But there was one example of such a phenomenon—and only one—in my experience…..”

Read on, and do check the movie ‘Shadowlands’, I couldn’t move while we watched this true life take on  CS Lewis(Anthony Hopkins’ best!) around the time he wrote the Chronicles of Narnia, &  ” …lifelong nostalgia,….longing to be reunited with something in the universe from which we now feel cut off, to be on the inside of some door we have always seen from the outside, is not mere neurotic fancy, but the truest index of our real situation.” (The Weight of Glory)


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