After I wakened this morning I regarded on the date and instantly my thoughts rewound and settled on at the present time in 1963. November 22 is at all times a major day for me. . . . sparking ideas of the previous and the long run. All of us have these important days, don’t we. Maybe yours is in 1986 (Area Shuttle catastrophe), in 2001 (9/11), or one thing else. I proceed to attempt to squeeze that means out of my reference to November twenty second.
Due to the character of what I examine by means of CPYU, I oftentimes get requested concerning the future and the previous. “When did all of it change?” “What do you suppose life for our children will likely be like in 5 years?” . . . questions like that. They’re head-scratchers, for certain.
I’m certain my reply to the previous query has been formed by my very own recollections and perceptions. However these recollections and perceptions have been bolstered through the years, notably as I’ve studied the arc and timing of the postmodern flip. . . starting within the self-discipline of philosophy after which frequently evidenced by modifications, each speedy and gradual, in popular culture and the cultural consciousness.
This is the reason November 22 is at all times so important to me. Culturally, I consider we crested a hill on Friday, November 22, 1963 – 60 years in the past now – as that presidential motorcade turned onto Elm St. in Dallas. Solely a second-grader on the time, I keep in mind the second I heard that Kennedy had been shot and the occasions of that weekend with nice readability. . . as if it was yesterday. Every little thing modified for me. . . and for tradition as properly.
As I’ve learn varied histories of the Nineteen Sixties, it wasn’t that issues started on November 22. Somewhat, it was extra that issues that had begun lengthy earlier than had been blooming in ways in which we noticed and couldn’t ignore. It was a little bit of a watershed and wake-up name.
For me personally, a very good chunk of my childhood innocence was misplaced on November 22, 1963 and the times that instantly adopted. Not solely did a President get gunned down, however I used to be one of many hundreds of thousands who noticed his alleged murderer get shot and killed and reside TV lower than 48 hours later. I skilled fears and a form of lack of innocence I had by no means encountered earlier than. Give it some thought: I used to be a seven-year-old child seeing and attempting to course of these horrifying issues. Maybe for the primary time I used to be starting to appreciate that, as Bob Dylan sings, “all the things is damaged”. It’s onerous for me to place into phrases simply how important that weekend was for me as little child. . . but it surely has caught with me since. As we watch the information right this moment, what I used to be starting to really feel then is confirmed over and again and again. . . that each one creation is groaning for redemption and restoration.
Many don’t understand that two different important deaths occurred on the identical day Kennedy was killed. . . Aldous Huxley (writer of the prophetically dystopian “Courageous New World”. . . which appears extra prophetically correct with every passing yr) and C.S. Lewis. To my level, Lewis penned these phrases in “The Weight of Glory”: “Our lifelong nostalgia, our longing to be reunited with one thing within the universe from which we now really feel lower off, to be on the within of some door which we’ve got at all times seen from the skin, is not any mere neurotic fancy, however the truest index of our actual scenario. And to be finally summoned inside can be each glory and honour past all our deserves and likewise the therapeutic of that previous ache.”
On this Thanksgiving week allow us to not neglect that we will and should, with the Apostle Paul, level to our Rescuer. . . “Thanks be to God for the present of His Son Jesus Christ!” (Romans 7:24).
And, allow us to thank God for the voices of reality that proceed to faithfully – even from the grave – steer us away from the compelling and pervasive modern narrative that not solely has its fingers gripping the steering wheel of the culture-at-large, however is more and more and sadly steering the church.
C.S. Lewis is a type of voices of which I’m reminded right this moment. I’m particularly grateful for my pricey pal Crystal Kirgess who two years in the past on this date emailed me her Nov. 22, 2016 weblog publish (“‘We Have No Proper to Happiness’ – C.S. Lewis’s closing phrases of warning”), reminding me of the final printed phrases of C.S. Lewis. . . phrases that talk with higher relevance right this moment, than on the day they had been printed in 1964. Crystal writes. . .
53 years in the past (November 22, 1963), John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, TX shortly after midday. Lower than an hour earlier, C. S. Lewis had collapsed and died at his house in Oxford. The information of his loss of life was fairly overshadowed by the American tragedy.
On the day he died, the December twenty first challenge of The Saturday Night Put up was heading to press. In it had been the final phrases written by Lewis for publication, a brief opinion piece titled “We Have No Proper to Happiness.” It might have been written right this moment, and positively must be learn right this moment. There are a couple of unsettling moments, typical of Lewis, which will trigger some girls to bristle (whether or not he was insensitive, obtuse, unaware, or misunderstood by readers is a dialogue for one more time). Regardless, his message is vital to this second in human historical past, simply because it was in 1963, simply because it was in 1982 when SEP reran it, simply as it will likely be subsequent yr, and simply as it will likely be for the rest of human historical past.
The article lays out a situation during which individual A divorces individual B as a way to marry individual C, who has not too long ago divorced individual D. A and B had been sad collectively (in A’s opinion, at the very least), as had been C and D (per C, anyway), whereas A and C are head-over-heels-happy as a pair and clearly meant to be collectively.
They, the truth is, have a proper – even perhaps an obligation – to make use of no matter means and comply with no matter path that can assist them absolutely understand their happiness. It isn’t only for their very own good: it’s for the nice of humanity at giant.
That’s a paraphrase, however you get the thought.
In typical Lewis style, he’ll have none of this weak and defective logic. . . . Continue reading here.
After I wakened this morning I regarded on the date and instantly my thoughts rewound and settled on at the present time in 1963. November 22 is at all times a major day for me. . . . sparking ideas of the previous and the long run. All of us have these important days, don’t we. Maybe yours is in 1986 (Area Shuttle catastrophe), in 2001 (9/11), or one thing else. I proceed to attempt to squeeze that means out of my reference to November twenty second.
Due to the character of what I examine by means of CPYU, I oftentimes get requested concerning the future and the previous. “When did all of it change?” “What do you suppose life for our children will likely be like in 5 years?” . . . questions like that. They’re head-scratchers, for certain.
I’m certain my reply to the previous query has been formed by my very own recollections and perceptions. However these recollections and perceptions have been bolstered through the years, notably as I’ve studied the arc and timing of the postmodern flip. . . starting within the self-discipline of philosophy after which frequently evidenced by modifications, each speedy and gradual, in popular culture and the cultural consciousness.
This is the reason November 22 is at all times so important to me. Culturally, I consider we crested a hill on Friday, November 22, 1963 – 60 years in the past now – as that presidential motorcade turned onto Elm St. in Dallas. Solely a second-grader on the time, I keep in mind the second I heard that Kennedy had been shot and the occasions of that weekend with nice readability. . . as if it was yesterday. Every little thing modified for me. . . and for tradition as properly.
As I’ve learn varied histories of the Nineteen Sixties, it wasn’t that issues started on November 22. Somewhat, it was extra that issues that had begun lengthy earlier than had been blooming in ways in which we noticed and couldn’t ignore. It was a little bit of a watershed and wake-up name.
For me personally, a very good chunk of my childhood innocence was misplaced on November 22, 1963 and the times that instantly adopted. Not solely did a President get gunned down, however I used to be one of many hundreds of thousands who noticed his alleged murderer get shot and killed and reside TV lower than 48 hours later. I skilled fears and a form of lack of innocence I had by no means encountered earlier than. Give it some thought: I used to be a seven-year-old child seeing and attempting to course of these horrifying issues. Maybe for the primary time I used to be starting to appreciate that, as Bob Dylan sings, “all the things is damaged”. It’s onerous for me to place into phrases simply how important that weekend was for me as little child. . . but it surely has caught with me since. As we watch the information right this moment, what I used to be starting to really feel then is confirmed over and again and again. . . that each one creation is groaning for redemption and restoration.
Many don’t understand that two different important deaths occurred on the identical day Kennedy was killed. . . Aldous Huxley (writer of the prophetically dystopian “Courageous New World”. . . which appears extra prophetically correct with every passing yr) and C.S. Lewis. To my level, Lewis penned these phrases in “The Weight of Glory”: “Our lifelong nostalgia, our longing to be reunited with one thing within the universe from which we now really feel lower off, to be on the within of some door which we’ve got at all times seen from the skin, is not any mere neurotic fancy, however the truest index of our actual scenario. And to be finally summoned inside can be each glory and honour past all our deserves and likewise the therapeutic of that previous ache.”
On this Thanksgiving week allow us to not neglect that we will and should, with the Apostle Paul, level to our Rescuer. . . “Thanks be to God for the present of His Son Jesus Christ!” (Romans 7:24).
And, allow us to thank God for the voices of reality that proceed to faithfully – even from the grave – steer us away from the compelling and pervasive modern narrative that not solely has its fingers gripping the steering wheel of the culture-at-large, however is more and more and sadly steering the church.
C.S. Lewis is a type of voices of which I’m reminded right this moment. I’m particularly grateful for my pricey pal Crystal Kirgess who two years in the past on this date emailed me her Nov. 22, 2016 weblog publish (“‘We Have No Proper to Happiness’ – C.S. Lewis’s closing phrases of warning”), reminding me of the final printed phrases of C.S. Lewis. . . phrases that talk with higher relevance right this moment, than on the day they had been printed in 1964. Crystal writes. . .
53 years in the past (November 22, 1963), John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, TX shortly after midday. Lower than an hour earlier, C. S. Lewis had collapsed and died at his house in Oxford. The information of his loss of life was fairly overshadowed by the American tragedy.
On the day he died, the December twenty first challenge of The Saturday Night Put up was heading to press. In it had been the final phrases written by Lewis for publication, a brief opinion piece titled “We Have No Proper to Happiness.” It might have been written right this moment, and positively must be learn right this moment. There are a couple of unsettling moments, typical of Lewis, which will trigger some girls to bristle (whether or not he was insensitive, obtuse, unaware, or misunderstood by readers is a dialogue for one more time). Regardless, his message is vital to this second in human historical past, simply because it was in 1963, simply because it was in 1982 when SEP reran it, simply as it will likely be subsequent yr, and simply as it will likely be for the rest of human historical past.
The article lays out a situation during which individual A divorces individual B as a way to marry individual C, who has not too long ago divorced individual D. A and B had been sad collectively (in A’s opinion, at the very least), as had been C and D (per C, anyway), whereas A and C are head-over-heels-happy as a pair and clearly meant to be collectively.
They, the truth is, have a proper – even perhaps an obligation – to make use of no matter means and comply with no matter path that can assist them absolutely understand their happiness. It isn’t only for their very own good: it’s for the nice of humanity at giant.
That’s a paraphrase, however you get the thought.
In typical Lewis style, he’ll have none of this weak and defective logic. . . . Continue reading here.