C.S. Lewis' Wisdom

The future is something everyone reaches

at the rate of sixty minutes an hour,

whatever he does, whoever he is

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- C.S. Lewis

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The quote cited above found its way into my soul a few years ago late one night and inspired this poem. I've been thinking about Lewis since Wyeth passed away on a day that will be remembered for other reasons, like Lewis who died on the same day as JFK was assassinated, thus going out with a whisper.

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The Price Of Free Will
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Of course G-d knew what would happen
if they used their freedom the wrong way:
apparently He thought it worth the risk.
Perhaps we feel disinclined to agree with Him.
But there is a difficulty about disagreeing with G-d.
He is the source from which all your reasoning power comes:
you could not be right and He wrong
any more than a stream can rise higher than its own source.
When you are arguing against Him you are arguing
against the very power that makes you able to argue at all:
it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.
If G-d thinks this state of war in the universe
a price worth paying for free will -
that is, for making a live world in which creatures
can do real good or real harm
and something of real importance can happen ,
instead of a toy world which only moves when he pulls the strings -
then we may take it it is worth paying.
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- CS Lewis (A Year With CS Lewis Pg 58)