Over the Christmas break, my family read A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis. He wrote it when his wife of 4 years died of cancer. It is a passionate and honest journal of a man's struggle with grief and thoughts about life, death, and God. He originally published it under the pseudonym N. W. Clerk, but so many people gave it to him as a gift because they thought it would help him in his grief that he revealed the authorship. Perhaps my dad will give a sermon on it some day; it so affected him. I will post quotes from the book every once and a while that impacted me the most.The opening line: “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
Heidi
