A Year with C. S. Lewis: 365 Daily Readings from his Classic Works

25 Books for Grown-Ups (#litres_trial_promo)

26 Comparing Cats and Dogs (#litres_trial_promo)

27 Sooner or Later They Fell (#litres_trial_promo)

28 The Place of Finality and Darkness (#litres_trial_promo)

29 Shall Hell Veto Heaven? (#litres_trial_promo)

30 Must Pity Die? (#litres_trial_promo)

December (#litres_trial_promo)

1 Hell’s Doors (#litres_trial_promo)

2 Left Alone (#litres_trial_promo)

3 A Detestable Doctrine (#litres_trial_promo)

4 You Be the Judge (#litres_trial_promo)

5 Viewing the Remains (#litres_trial_promo)

6 Either-Or (#litres_trial_promo)

7 Choose Now, Choose Well (#litres_trial_promo)

8 Thy Will Be Done (#litres_trial_promo)

9 Better to Reign in Hell (#litres_trial_promo)

10 The Man Who Mistook the Means for the End (#litres_trial_promo)

11 To the Extreme (#litres_trial_promo)

12 From Outsider to Insider (#litres_trial_promo)

13 From Vanity into Pride (#litres_trial_promo)

14 To Be on the Inside (#litres_trial_promo)

15 The Sly Impulse (#litres_trial_promo)

16 A Permanent Mainspring of Human Action (#litres_trial_promo)

17 Why Avoid Becoming an “Inner Ringer”? (#litres_trial_promo)

18 Discovering Your Own Ring of True Friendship (#litres_trial_promo)

19 The Obstinate Tin Soldier (#litres_trial_promo)

20 One Tin Soldier Comes Alive (#litres_trial_promo)

21 A God Distinct (#litres_trial_promo)

22 Think of It Like This (#litres_trial_promo)

23 Everywhere the Great Enters the Little (#litres_trial_promo)

24 God Descends to Reascend (#litres_trial_promo)

25 The Grand Miracle (#litres_trial_promo)

26 The Signature of the Soul (#litres_trial_promo)

27 A New and Secret Name (#litres_trial_promo)

28 To Drink Joy from the Fountain of Joy (#litres_trial_promo)

29 A Hymn to God’s Creation (#litres_trial_promo)

30 Heaven’s Revels (#litres_trial_promo)

31 Glory as Brightness, Splendour, Luminosity (#litres_trial_promo)

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JANUARY (#ulink_07a5c62f-4563-5425-a9cd-7491fab9a1c2)

1 Supposing We Really Found Him? (#ulink_dfc8c971-5e34-54a2-a291-292b77fc6b7a)

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 had found us?

—from Miracles

January 1911 Lewis (age twelve) enrolls at Cherbourg Preparatory School in Malvern.

2 Imagine a Mystical Limpet (#ulink_72084f41-d025-5ed7-a9b6-de50f6ae1b06)