A Year with C. S. Lewis
Daily Readings from His Classic Works
Excerpt
1 JanuarySupposing We Really Found Him?
It is always shocking to meet life where we thought we were alone. 'Look out!' we cry, 'it's alive'. And therefore this is the very point at
which so many draw back - I would have done so myself if I could - and proceed no further with Christianity. An 'impersonal God' - well
and good. A subjective God of beauty, truth and goodness, inside our
own heads - better still. A formless life-force surging through us, a
vast power which we can tap - best of all. But God Himself, alive,
pulling at the other end of the cord, perhaps approaching at an infinite
speed, the hunter, king, husband - that is quite another matter. There
comes a moment when the children who have been playing at burglars
hush suddenly: was that a real footstep in the hall? There comes a
moment when people who have been dabbling in religion ('Man's search for God!') suddenly draw back. Supposing we really found
Him? We never meant it to come to that! Worse still, supposing He
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