CS Lewis helped changed the world's landscape, but he first started by changing himself. His faith, his strength, his courage is an inspiration. Though our feelings come and go, God’s love for us does not.There's something surreal about that phrase - How we can be loved unconditionally. Its unfathomable by the human mind, which is why you have to let mind go. Feel it with your heart. Feel it with your soul.
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It has taken all my energy of mind up to this point in my life to wrap my brain around my limitations as an emotional being. Most of teen years (as my parents can attest) were a maelstrom of wild emotional highs and lows. I was weilding a sword that was too big for me. (Until we grow into our strengths they are a bit dangerous to us and the outside world.) But as I get older, I handle my emotions with more dexterity and I understand the emotions of others with more clarity as well. So I identify with C.S. Lewis when he says, 'feelings come and go, but not the love of God.' The love of God has been the constant that I fix my gaze on when all else (including myself) wavers, shakes, and falls. I have learned to take most everything with a grain of salt except for that one truth: God's love will not falter. It will not stop. It will die down, grow cold, wax disinterested. God, in His very nature, cannot stop loving me. This truth scared me when I was young, because I wondered what he would "make" me do with this unrelenting pursuit of love, but I know now he does not "make" us do anything. We respond to his love when we feel it to our core and when we are able to respond to it. And he doesn't begrudge us the learning time.
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