Just Because I'm Silly...

Prince Caspian Bloopers

Oh, to write like Lewis...

On Christianity:
"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."

Simple Wisdom:
"When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start to go right they often go on getting better and better."

"The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed."

On Writing:
"Don’t say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we’ve read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me."
- C. S. Lewis

Most of these were found on Wikiquote , my new favorite website.

Winter Is Almost Here...

You know what that means?

Lots more ice.

It's snowing.

:-(

Narnian Humor, Just Because I Felt Like It

This struck my funny bone rather hard, I think I must be slap happy.

One Week!!

Prince Caspian comes out in 7 days! I am SO hyped!!!

C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters..

(For those haven't read The Screwtape Letters, this is written by a demon and when he refers to the "Enemy" he's talking about God.)

"The humans live in time but our Enemy destines them to Eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants to attend chiefly to two things, to Eternity itself, and to that point of time which they call the Present. For the Present is the point at which time touches Eternity. Of the Present moment, and of it only, humans have an experience, analogous to the experience which our Enemy has of reality as a whole; in it alone freedom and actuality are offered them. He would therefore have them continually concerned either with Eternity (which means being concerned with him) or with the Present-wither meditating on their eternal union with, or separation from, Himself, or else obeying the present voice of conscience, bearing the present cross, receiving of the present grace, giving thanks for the Present pleasure." ~Chapter 15, The Screwtape Letters

I was reading this for school today and this particular paragraph jumped out at me. I guess I just never though of it this way... present is our only connection to eternity.The present goes by so fast, that I forget to enjoy and give thanks for every day God gives me, I forget to praise him for the connection he gives me with him, the ability to spend eternity with God.

Grammar, To Being or Not to Being

Remember the English assignment from the beginning if the school year?? Well I've written more assignments since then, but nothing too interesting. Last week's chapters assignment was to write a piece supporting a subject, but completely mean to oppose it. I was to write something by meaning something else. It's an interesting venue of the written word. Although often used in sarcasm, C.S Lewis used it in his classic "The Screwtape Letters" which I am currently reading. By writing from the view of a demon, and through that trying showing evil to be good he was actually showing how sickly evil, evil really is! I'm not aspiring to be be C.S. Lewis, but when I learned this venue was to be used in my assignment I decided to enjoy it by attack a pet peeve of mine, (a pet peeve I am ashamedly guilty of..) BAD GRAMMAR!



Hey’s me is so happy your is reading this here wrote paper. I is written it to speaks to all you that good grammer ain’t worth at all the work and trouble and all that. You who wants to messy with pronouns and nouns and verbs and proper tenses. Why you worry about the difference in seen and saw? What matters is it was looked. Was were what were the problem with it if it was that a way or were that way. Past present and future make none big deal, ain’t they the same? and in that there thought whats with capitalization and punctuation all big trouble i’s say I could be ,any trouble to figure which of whole much tenses to use when you is written when you’s could just wrote what you feels like and let the reading person figure out what you’s meet hisself that’s how come i’s going to being start a club for non-grammulacerists calling
“grammer ain’t worth it none”

Care’s to join i?

“grammer ain’t worth it none” is a corperation of “spillin shud bee otlaud”

Choices, Narnia and Bleak House

Bleak House. A novel by Charles Dickens. Wikipedia calls it "Widely held to be one of Dickens' finest and most complete novels, containing one of the most vast, complex and engaging arrays of minor characters and sub-plots in his entire canon." True, there were tons of characters in the 2005 adaption we watched last week. Funny ones, weird ones, scary ones and a couple just plain... creepy ones. All very Dickens-ish The movie was well made, fast-paced, well written and acted, and worth watching all 8 hours.

During our 3 night viewing our family discussed the moral of the story. We came to the conclusion that it was a story of choices. The whole story comes to be because a women makes a wrong choice, a morally wrong choice. Because of that choice, our heroine is born. So if she had made the right choice we would have no story, right? So was it actually the right choice? We'd have no story if not, and what about all the people our heroine helped and blessed in her life??Well of course not, but the question comes.... What if???

This reminds me of one of my absolute favorite passages in C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia books. Price Caspin Chapter 10:

"You mean" said Lucy rather faintly, "that it would have turned out all right-somehow? But how? Please Aslan! Am I not to know?"

"To know what would have happened, child? said Aslan. "No. Nobody is ever told that."

"Oh dear," said Lucy.

"But anyone can find out what will happen," said Aslan...

And what about the many people our heroine helped?? Narnia wisdom comes in again, this time from The Horse and His Boy Chapter 14:

"Child," said Aslan, "I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own."

What choices we make we can not change, we make them in a split second, and the wheels are set in motion. Whether good or bad they are made and can not be changed. How ever small, they might have much significance. Will anyone's life be changed by me posting this today? I should think not... but you never know. Is it right? Wrong? Somewhere in between? It's confusing, and frustrating, but what is certain is that God gave us free will, and the only thing one knows they can do right is to listen to the Holy Spirit and try to do God's will in everything...