BLOG POSTING, WEEK OF SEP 7, 2026:   NOTHING BUT A...

The last several posts were about becoming what you focus on; and I love the way “The Great Divorce” by CS Lewis emphasizes the eternal ramifications of those earthly focuses we are all so good at!  Lewis depicts a man given to showy, theatrical, displays of “I’ve been wronged.”  That man, in the end, turns down true love and forgiveness, to hold on to his own all-important victimhood!

But the Lewis lines I love the most, on page 77 of my paperback, are the heavenly guide explaining a garrulous old woman to a visiting spirit, “The question is whether she is a grumbler, or only a grumble.”  The guide then explains that if there was even a spark of real woman under the ashes it could be blown on and brought back to life, but if there is only ashes, “we’ll not go on blowing them up in our own eyes forever.  They must be swept up.”

“The whole difficulty of understanding Hell is that the thing to be understood is so nearly  Nothing.”

If you focus on any less than Christ, you can become your own  Nothing.

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