Ponderings and Oswald Chamber

Hello everyone!

Okay so, I figured this was such a great idea that we shouldn't let it go to waste!

Sooooo...

I figured we should put our minds together and do some C.S. Lewis Reading this year! Let us combine our favorite C.S. Lewis books and make a reading list (hopefully not too big because I'm sure we all have alot to do especially for me since I'm beginning my freshman year of college) Perhaps maybe a book a month or something?

Anyways... I would LOVE to discuss C.S. Lewis and hear what God says to you through His writings.

Soo let me know if you all think this is a good idea or not. In either case, lets not let this blog die!

-Sam

Ps. I thought I would post some of Oswald Chambers "My Utmost for His Highest" for thought food and something fresh to think and ponder about. It takes some spiritual digestion, that's for sure haha.


July 30 "The Discipline of Disillusionment"

Disillusionment means that there are no more false judgements in life. To be undeceived by disillusionment may leave us cynical and unkindly severe in our judgement of others, but the disillusionment which comes from God brings us to the place where we see men and women as they really are, and yet there is no cynicism, we have no stinging bitter things to say. Many of the cruel things in life spring from the fact that we suffer from illusion. We are not true to one another as facts; we are true only to our ideas of one another. Everything is either delightful and fine, or mean and dastardly, according to our idea.
The refusal to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering in human life. It works in this way -- if we love a human being and do not love God, we demand of him every perfection and every rectitude, and when we do not get it we become cruel and vindictive; we are demanding of a human being that which he or she cannot give. There is only one Being Who can satisfy the last aching abyss of the human heart, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ. Why our Lord is apparently so severe regarding every human relationship is because He knows that every relationship not based on loyalty to Himself will end in disaster. Our Lord trusted no man, yet He was never suspicious, never bitter. Our Lord's confidence in God and in what His grace could do for any man, was so perfect that He despaired of no one. If our trust is placed in human beings, we shall end in despairing of everyone.

A penny for your thoughts! Please bring them :D

Perhaps maybe we could get into some deeper subjects..

any suggestions?

Has anyone heard of Brian Jacques...
I am currently reading his book called Rakkety Tam

If you have read any of his books tell me what you think.

"Progress doesn't mean just change, but change for the better."

-C.S. Lewis

So I love Jane Eyre...has anyone else read it? What did you think? Favorite quotes?

-Sarah-