Our local library’s booksale is on. At the local mall, locals wander by the global display of literacy. There are books on cooking, and books on romance, and books on travel, and books for kids, and books that span the ages.
I like Dilbert and B.C. comic books. So I picked them up. They are a quick read and bring a smile to my face.
I also like C.S. Lewis. Today I saw his book on “The Problem of Pain.” I’ve heard of this book, read reviews and even quotes. Now I have the actual manuscript (as do thousands of others who purchased the paperback).
In one of those pick and point approaches, I opened the book to the following quote.
My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness that is not arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and hastening towards concrete amendment or restitution, or else arising from pity and hastening to active assistance, is simply bad; and I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to “rejoice”as much as by anything else (55)