Last night in church my pastor read a C.S. Lewis quote during her sermon on the Israeli wilderness grumblings and wanderings. As with everything C.S. Lewis has to say, it really resonated with me. Sometimes I think we are the same person, only he is much better able to express what I am thinking and feeling with respect to God and religion. Anyway, here’s the quote from The Screwtape Letters (fantastic book, BTW):

“Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man’s best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind over it knows not what and knows not why, in the gratification of curiosities so feeble that the man is only half aware of them, in drumming of fingers and kicking of heels, in whistling tunes that he does not like, or in the long, dim labyrinth of reveries that have not even lust or ambition to give them a relish, but which, once chance association has started them, the creature is too weak and fuddled to shake off…The only thing that matters is the extent to which you separate the man from the Enemy… Murder is no better than cards if cards do the trick. Indeed, the safest road to Hell is the gradual one – the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.”

I won’t expand on this too much- I think Lewis pretty much covers it. Suffice it to say this is probably one of my biggest struggles in my faith. I’ve been trying to be more proactive lately, but boy can it be hard sometimes.

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