excerpts from a foreword by Kathleen Norris to "Mere Christianity" by the great, brilliant C.S. Lewis, a man who was in love with the imagination. He gives some powerful insights here...it certainly has transformed my world-view for good.
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The "mere" Christianity of C.S. Lewis is not a philosophy or even a theology that may be considered, argued, and put away in a book on a shelf. It is a way of life, one that challenges us always to remember, as Lewis once stated that "there are no ordinary people...it is IMMORTALS whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit." Once we tune ourselves to this reality, Lewis believes, we open ourselves to imaginatively transform our lives in such a way that evil diminishes and good prevails. It is what Christ asked of us in taking on our humanity, sanctifying our flesh, and asking us in turn to reveal God to one another.
The Christianity Lewis espouses is humane, but not easy; it asks us to recognize that the great religious struggle is not fought on a spectacular battleground, but within the ordinary human heart, when every morning we awake and feel the pressures of the day crowding in on us, and WE MUST DECIDE WHAT SORT OF IMMORTALS WE WISH TO BE.
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