A Grief Observed

By C. S. Lewis, C. S. Lewis

A man's faith is tested by profound loss, challenging his beliefs and sense of meaning.

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After his wife's tragic death, a man grapples with the shattering of his faith and the search for meaning in a world turned upside down. In 'A Grief Observed,' C.S. Lewis offers a raw, honest account of his spiritual journey through grief. As he confronts the darkness of loss, he questions everything he once held true. Can he find a way back to hope and understanding, or will despair consume him? This poignant reflection explores the depths of sorrow and the struggle to reclaim faith amidst life's most profound challenges.

From the publisher

Written after his wife’s tragic death as a way of surviving the “mad midnight moment,” A Grief Observed is C.S. Lewis’s honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss. This work contains his concise, genuine reflections on that period: “Nothing will shake a man – or at any rate a man like me – out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself.” This is a beautiful and unflinchingly honest record of how even a stalwart believer can lose all sense of meaning in the universe, and how he can gradually regain his bearings.

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