The Great C.S. Lewis
The man that wrote the Narnia Chronicles was a great philosopher as well as a writer. In his Screwtape Letters he talks about time. Screwtape Letters is a series of letters written from Screwtape, a demon, to a demon in training. The gist of the letters is how to best temp a human to keep the human away from God and close to Satan.
The letter concerning time instructed the minor demon to tempt the human to focus on the past or the future and never the now. The now it was said is the only time in a human life that touches eternity. Eternity is where God wishes a human to be focused.
Now is the only thing that matters. I said it before. When I look to the future I get overwhelmed and when I look to the past I get angry or sad. Now is the only place that I can accomplish anything. Now is the only time I have control over. Now touches eternity.
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March 18, 2008 - 6:00 am MST at 6:00 am
Man, you’re deep! Keep up the hard work in the now!
March 18, 2008 - 8:29 am MST at 8:29 am
C.S. Lewis is one of my favorite authors and persons. I raised my daughters on Chronicles of Narnia.
March 18, 2008 - 9:41 am MST at 9:41 am
God! why do you always say things that are goign with me!!! getting sad over past and getting overwhelmed by the future! i too am taking things one day at a time, its hard and i think it comes with time not over night. Things start to get clear and you learn to take things one day at time and feel more happy about the ‘now’.
March 18, 2008 - 9:48 am MST at 9:48 am
wijiha,
I hear you. At different times in my life I have hidden from the now to avoid pain or facing a situation. It is really a matter of disciplining myself to come back to the now every time I find myself slipping. I have done this constantly with my weight loss.