I’ve previously said we are emotional beings much more than we want to admit. Emotions control us.
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The greatest proof that we are feeling beings is grief, because grief overwhelms us.
So many books on grief are written for our minds – “How can a good God allow suffering?”. But when grief comes to us, these books are almost worthless. We don’t think through grief, we feel through.
CS Lewis wrote The Problem of Pain ; a best seller. But when his wife died, he wrote a completely different book, A Grief Observed . He journeyed through grief this time, not above it.
Many people didn’t know how to take a book full of doubt and despair from such a great mind of faith. But that’s the rub. Faith, life, has never been an intellectual experience, but a felt one.
Paul Clark’s musings can be heard on radio across Australia and at atthetop.org.au.
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