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We Live In The Shadowlands

Several years ago, I watched Shadowlands and was deeply touched. The movie tells the true story of the author C.S. Lewis (Jack), who though an award-winning author, leads a relatively passionless life until he meets an American divorcee, Joy Gresham. It is the beginning of a deep love, a love that changes both of them in a powerful way, and deepens their faith in God. But their time together is short as Joy becomes terminally ill with cancer.

Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night afraid that something horrible has happened to someone that I love. So I pray for everyone I can think of. I reach my hand over and draw comfort from the warmth and breath of my wife who still sleeps beside me. Slowly my fear ebbs away because for another night the Angel of Death has passed over the doors of those who are closest to me. (Though I do not think it has very much to do with my prayers).

I want to pray as hard for everyone in the world as I pray for my family and friends. The Angel of Death does not always pass over. I do not want to live my life in fear. I do not want to be afraid of the pain that comes with being close to people and thereby miss the happiness that comes from their presence.

In the movie, Joy, in pushing Jack to be present to ALL of life, states: “We can’t have the happiness of yesterday without the pain of today. That’s the deal.”

We live in the Shadowlands, between the sunrise and sunset. But the sun is always present and as long as I cast a shadow, it means that I am alive. Alive to live and love and care and hurt to the fullest of my being.

That’s the deal.

(November 2007)

A quotation from C S Lewis

There are inquiries in which scanty evidence is worth using. We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.

C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) English writer, literary scholar, lay theologian [Clive Staples Lewis]
Essay (1950-10), “Historicism,” The Month, Vol. 4, No. 4 New Series (Vol. 190, No. 998 Old Series)

More about this quote: wist.info/lewis-cs/45027/

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A quotation from C. S. Lewis

But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.

C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) English writer, literary scholar, lay theologian [Clive Staples Lewis]
An Experiment in Criticism, Epilogue (1961)

More about this quote: wist.info/lewis-cs/82426/

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SATURDAY MATINEE MUSIC VIDEO “Rebellion Comes On”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRla4IIngvM

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https://open.substack.com/pub/blairproductions32/p/two-songs-about-space-spirit-and?r=98j2k&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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Netflix's biggest films streaming in 2026 from sequel to epic action thriller

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/film/netflixs-biggest-films-streaming-2026-36475409

Distributism - utopian dream, or a way forward? The latest Radical Simple Living Podcast (series 3 episode 4) in any of the normal podcast places, or here -

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/raylovegrove/episodes/2025-11-02T07_01_51-08_00

#Distributism #SimpleLiving #Chesterton #Tolkien #CSLewis #podcast

What do you think about the evocation of the name of Aslan in THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE? Do you think the upcoming movie will capture the feeling? https://youtube.com/shorts/O1_cGOBCuvA?feature=share #inklings #cslewis #literature #Tolkien #Narnia #books #reading #readingcommunity #CharlesWilliams #OddestInkling

What important, distinctive words did Inklings use for their core concepts, besides obvious ones like Eucatastrophe, Mythopoeia, Sehnsucht, Romantic Theology, Evolution of Consciousness, Co-inherence?
#Inklings #CSLewis #Tolkien #Barfield #OddestInkling #CharlesWilliams

Monday motivation: "Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching." - (C.S. Lewis )

Think about it—your most defining moments aren't the ones captured on camera. Integrity isn’t a performance.

It’s who you are when the lights are off and the crowd is gone.

That’s your foundation.

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I'm hoping to make contact with other people interested in #theology and #literature with special reference to the #Inklings -- authors like #CSLewis, #Tolkien and #CharlesWilliams.

I've written a few adventure/fantasy #childrensbooks mainly influenced by C.S. Lewis, Alan Garner and Charles Williams, and #amwriting another one at the moment.

I'm an #Orthodox deacon, semi-retired editor (mainly of academic texts) and #missiologist.