The Great Divorce

It has been a while since my Last post. During that time, the University shot me and I had time to recover because of a long weekend (that took forever to arrive)! The occasion was Thanksgiving. Spending dinner with a church family was truly a blessing. Amongst the trauma of university, the beauty of thankgiving dinner, I finally found some time to Read the "Great Divorce" by C.S. Lewis.

The book is awesome and if you have time to spare, this is a must read. Lewis's magnitude as a writer shines through.Most importantly his comprehension of Christianity and of what's to come shines through even brighter. Its like I witnessed that light everyone tells you about, that one light, that shines at the end of the tunnel. (I guess if you are living in Cape Town you'll never see the light as their is always some problem with the generators at the Nuclear Power Plant in Koeberg). Only kidding!

Here's a taste of what you can expect, this excerpt comes from a character in the book teaching Lewis about time with respect to eternity:

"For every attempt to see eternity through the lens of Time destroys your knowledge of Freedom. Witness the doctrine of Predestination which shows (truly enough) that eternal reality is not waiting for a future to be real, but at the price of removing Freedom which is the deeper truth of the two?"

The character later annecdotes, "Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition. Time itself, and all acts and events that fill Time, are the definition, and it must be lived. The Lord sayed we were gods. How long could ye bear to look (without Time's lens) on the greatness of your own soul and the eternal reality of her choice?"

-Lloyd