“Crying is all right in its own way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.”
― C.S. Lewis
This is a quote that I read days before Grandma passed away. Sometimes God doesn’t speak in a big thundering voice, sometimes he speaks through the pages of a book. I am in the middle of 5 books. And for whatever reason, I felt like I needed to pick up The Silver Chair again. I don’t know how I would have got through these last few days without having that quote on my mind and the feeling that God knew it was time, knew I would need this comfort, and knew exactly what words I needed to keep with me to deal with it.
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless—it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.”
~ CS Lewis
