Clive Staples

CS Lewis is amazing. i am fascinated by the concept of stories. Stories have this way of telling more truth than reality. Kind of like Jesus' parables. Somehow by making the time and place apart from reality, it can be anyone. It can be personalized. Vague causes us to see more clearly and fiction teaches a level of truth, of life lessons learned, that it is hard to convey otherwise. Of course I am not speaking of the the Word of God, but the words of men. Example...Chronicles of Narnia [if you haven't already, i highly suggest you read them all]...in reading those books, i feel i learned more, and gained more insight, than i have in reading purely instructional or informational books. Something about stories goes straight to our hearts. Maybe it helps us understand more of the things we can't see. The real live battle between good and evil, demons and angels. The fight for anything...for life, freedom, peace, joy. The qualities and character of God.
I mean, of course i'm not stuck in a tower or in imminent danger, but then again maybe i am. I have a hunch that what we call 'reality' is not really the whole picture of reality. what is really 'real' lasts forever. this world is not the reality in which we should live our lives. our ultimate reality lies in the unseen, which is unknown and fanciful to most people.
so i think i could think about that for a long time, and never really figure it out. so now that i have most likely confused you too, i must go. but it is pretty fascinating. to me, anyway. wrote a paper on that concept--of truth and fiction--for a class last year. it was pretty cool. pretty confusing, but my prof liked it. off to athens to move out mere...