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Timeless at Heart

C.S. Lewis

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Till We Have Faces is classic C. S. Lewis. Lewis's revision of the Myth of Cupid and Psyche is extremely well written in the engaging style that characterizes his other fiction. It's a great story, one that also communicates in a loving and sensitive way the futility and illogic of those views that cast doubt on God's justice or mercy. Like his friends Tolkien and Williams, Lewis loved the power of myth, and this particular myth has an autobiographical point to make about getting one's thinking straight. Like some of his other works, this story plot is cut short before what we might wish to be a satisfying conclusion. This too fits into one of Lewis's life themes: every person has a deep unquenchable longing for that perfect place or circumstance where life will be fulfilled and joy complete. "We have all had our dream of some other land, some other world, some other way of giving the prizes which would bring us in as the conquerors…" In this life, just like the story, we can never quite get there. Nor can we even quite imagine what that perfect experience will be like. In the meantime, none of us can really relate to God, meet him in person, or even understand him "till we have faces." Yet we can have faces, and we can meet Him face to face, to the regret of those around us, for there is a love that devours the one who is loved. "For mortals will become more and more jealous. And mother and wife and child and friend will all be in league to keep a soul from being united with the Divine Nature." Was Lewis thinking of this: "And all of us, with unveiled faces, seeing the glory of the Lord as though reflected in a mirror, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another; for this comes from the Lord, the Spirit" (2 Corinthians 3:18)? Read the book to find what this means.

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Clive Staples Lewis (1898–1963) was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably one of the most influential writers of his day. He was a Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Oxford University until 1954, when he was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University, a position he held until his retirement. He wrote more than thirty books, allowing him to reach a vast audience, and his works continue to attract thousands of new readers every year. His most distinguished and popular accomplishments include Mere Christianity, Out of the Silent Planet, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, and the universally acknowledged classics The Chronicles of Narnia. To date, the Narnia books have sold over 100 million copies and been transformed into three major motion pictures