C. S. Lewis’ Surrender
Found this interesting quote in Philip Yancey’s Reaching for the Invisible God.
In an unusually revealing letter to his friend Father John Calabria [Lewis explains.] In his fiftieth year, he could sense his writing talent slipping away. He was spending his time caring for a friend’s infirm mother, in a chaotic house devestated by quarrels. “How long, O Lord?” Lewis writes. He explains the distractions to Calabria, asks for prayer, says that disruptions are keeping him from work on many books. He adds, “If it shall please God that I write more books, blessed be He. If it shall not please Him, again, blessed be He. Perhaps it will be the most wholesome thing for my soul that I lose both fame and skill lest I were to fall into that evil disease, vainglory.”
It’s after this that he wrote the Narnia series. I’m thankful God was not pleased to suck the talent out of C. S. Lewis. It’s probably because of this surrender that God was able to use him further. Good times.
