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Read by Ralph Cosham.
Lewis writes of his grief with the death of his wife to cancer. He married her knowing full well that she would soon die. I read this book after the death of my husband. We were married one month short of fifty years. The circumstances of our respective marital relationships differ widely.
Lewis says he speaks first and foremost of himself, then his wife and finally of God, but that the order should have been the reverse. This makes clear his ...more
Read by Ralph Cosham.
Lewis writes of his grief with the death of his wife to cancer. He married her knowing full well that she would soon die. I read this book after the death of my husband. We were married one month short of fifty years. The circumstances of our respective marital relationships differ widely.
Lewis says he speaks first and foremost of himself, then his wife and finally of God, but that the order should have been the reverse. This makes clear his ...more
"I will not, if I can help it, shin up either the feathery or the prickly tree. Two widely different convictions press more and more on my mind. One is that the Eternal Vet is even more inexorable and the possible operations even more painful than our severest imaginings can forbode. But the other, that 'all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.'"
I've not yet experienced a grief like Lewis's but I have experienced doubts, questions, and anxieties. On reread ...more
I've not yet experienced a grief like Lewis's but I have experienced doubts, questions, and anxieties. On reread ...more
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