CS Lewis wrote a book just Sadness after the death of his beloved wife, Joy Davidman, who lost the fight against cancer. This position will be considered a work of art unique in the whole of the English writer. This work by their nature very different from that to which we have become accustomed Lewis. Sadness is by many considered to be ideal reading for those who lost loved one. It is difficult with this opinion does not agree. However, already in the preface of the book Douglas H. Gresham, Joy Davidman's son, to whom CS Lewis for a long time, replacing his father, the very important opinion. He writes about it, not to sadden construed as a kind of handbook for the treatment of pain after losing loved ones. This work is because the image of a personal, individual experience of meeting with the death of a loved one. And so is his podchodzić.Smutek is primarily to illustrate the inner struggle that CS Lewis walked in one of the most difficult moments of his life. It's not just a description of his feelings, but also the despair of something I believe most, and why he devoted almost all his works. One of the greatest authorities in matters of religion and morality and decided to show the world moment of his weakness and undermine faith in God's mercy. In this book, Lewis does not care too much about form. Not organizes everything from a well-known diligence. Just write what he thinks. First, in the pages of four notebooks, which later formed the book. What really gives food for thought is a sober mind, which Lewis maintains, even in moments of greatest despair, pouring out their feelings on the author's papier.Dla grief is a process. It can not in any way portray. Nor draw any of its maps. Every day, because there is a new element of suffering. Lewis as best they can describe any of these elements. His own grief to him about fear. Fear that H. forget the true picture (the so-called his deceased wife in the pages of Sorrows). Lewis sometimes do not want to even think about it is to start something new. Meditates on the meaning of his life. Believes his own thoughts are clouded by feelings of which most would look pozbył.Jak issues of faith in God as seen by Lewis through the prism of suffering? Even in the most difficult moments do not consider it a total loss of faith. He is afraid of the fact that it would begin to believe in the most crooked picture God, being niggardly in his mercy: "And meanwhile, where is God? Here is one of the most distressing symptoms. When you're happy that you do not feel any need for God, and you'd be willing to consider his request in relation to you superfluous, and only at the time of repentance guide the mind towards Him, glorifying Him with gratitude, you are-or so it seems to you welcomed with open arms. But return to Him in desperate need, when all other help fails-with what they encounter? With the door in his face zatrzaśniętymi, barred from the inside " (1). As you can see, even a man of great faith in a moment of great inner pain scale can doubt God's love. Is also concerned about whether the suffering that has suffered at his beloved Mr end of his life will surely end up in heaven and if God really mild for her. Muses on whether God will please Mr immediately and will not let her longing for her husband. Grief is certainly not a book exclusively about the pain and despair. After one and second in the life of Lewis comes to something much more beautiful. It is a consolation and hope. Gradually begin to seem realize that the suffering of his thoughts led to an inadequate way. Begins to perceive the death of his beloved, as a new phase of her life. Lewis sees no longer the state of their spirit and image of God in a different light. Compares God to a surgeon who heals suffering. I can not stop this process before the end of its operation. Pain is to be also an attempt to Lewis-esteem, which until now known only to God. Lewis in the same way he approached these issues much earlier in the book The problem of suffering: "In our pleasures, God returns whispers to us in our conscience speaks ordinary voice, pain-in our cries to us, suffering is His megaphone, which serves to arouse a deaf world. " (2) Perhaps the only CS Lewis was able to spread so that her own grief prime factors. He managed to write a report your pain to gradually gain relief. Also met the doubts concerning God's love. He did all this to give new hope not only themselves, but certainly also a number of its readers. The best example can serve the most beautiful words that can be found in the pages of Sorrows: "Once they are already near the end, I said," If you could, if allowed, come to me when I'll be on his deathbed. "Allowed?" - she replied with difficulty .- Sky I would be stopped. And when it comes to hell, rozwaliłabym them to pieces. " (3)
first CS Lewis, Sadness, Krakow 2009, p. 29
second CS Lewis, The problem of suffering, Kraków 2010, s.114.
third CS Lewis, Sadness, Krakow 2010, p. 116th
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