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A Grief Observed

Yazan: C. S. Lewis
Seslendiren: Ralph Cosham
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Written after his wife’s tragic death as a way of surviving the “mad midnight moments,” A Grief Observed is C. S. Lewis’ 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.

©1961 , restored 1996 C. S. Lewis Pte., Ltd. (P)2006 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Christian Living Christianity Death & Dying Grief & Loss Personal Development Relationships Religious Studies Ruh Sağlığı Farkındalığı Sociology İyi Hissettiren Samimi Keder
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“Reading A Grief Observed is to share not only in C. S. Lewis’ grief, but in his understanding of love, and that is richness indeed.”

(Madeline L’Engle, from the foreword)

“[A Grief Observed] 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.”

(Michael Joseph Gross)

“A very personal, anguished, luminous little book about the meaning of death, marriage, and religion.”

(Publishers Weekly)

“Grief exhibits Lewis’ ability to capture the ear…Ralph Cosham gives a fluid and evenhanded reading to this soul-baring expose of emotion itself and the man who wrote about it.”

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A real in depth, honest laid bare experience of a true literary Genius,

This view of grief resonated so well with me, as I had experienced a modocom of the same when I lost my partner over 20 years ago.

Whilst I would not wish this kind of grief on anyone, I would suggest that this is a must read for any who have already had the experience, or those seeking to work with those who grieve such as clergy or chaplains.

A look inside the mode of a wonderful Auther

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CS Lewis can be difficult to read, it helped hearing it spoken out loud!

Reflective listening

Bir sorun oluştu. Lütfen birkaç dakika sonra tekrar deneyin.
I listened to this walking the Camino de Santiago. I found it profoundly moving and deeply thought-provoking and has certainly lasted with time. Not for ‘light relief’

Deep and thoughtful

Bir sorun oluştu. Lütfen birkaç dakika sonra tekrar deneyin.
No individual ‘other’s’ grief observed would ever rate the full five stars.
For that we would need to encounter our own so described, and thereby to find complete understanding, comfort and peace.
But in detailing his own experience C.S. Lewis, already a theologian with an ability to interpret for us some of the most challenging questions of enquiring minds, is able to find and describe those peculiar internal conflicts that arise in the grief stricken. And to disentangle them and lead us towards some of that understanding, comfort and peace.
I don’t think i needed the forward by Douglas Gresham, which in this audio version was not identified separately and could therefore not be ‘skipped’. He (DG) seemed almost irritated that Lewis’ grief was not his own. And the mention of his own widowhood (rather than any reflection on the loss of his mother, Lewis’ wife) makes me suspect that the loss of his husband was raw. DG was right to emphasize that these reflections are of A Grief and not of Grief per se. He differentiates Lewis’ sudden and premature loss with his own experience of a long and fulfilling life with another. But strangely doesn’t acknowledge his own terribly painful experience of his mother’s premature death (which one might have imagined would so much more closely have reflected Lewis’ own grief).
My own experience of grief was (like DG) of the loss of a much loved mother at a crucial early age; and i found Lewis’ insights to be if not universal then at least relatable to this other shocking early death and concomitant ‘truncated’ relationship.
To hear a man of real faith, be tested, be angry, be confused, even disappointed, and yet to seek and find meaning is a hugely positive experience.
Lewis speaks of Love and sometimes without realizing it, of Faith, and obliquely of Hope.
1. Corinthians 13:13 says ‘Faith, hope and love, and the greatest of these is love’.
A Grief Observed leads me to reflect that Lewis discovered in his grief that they are one and the same. Perhaps to really Love is to have Faith and that is the eternal place for hope. ‘The greatest of these is Love’. And as has been said many times, grief is the price we pay for Love.

‘And the greatest of these is Love’

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I listened to this soon after my mum passed away and found it helpful. Listening again 3 months later I can identify with so much more with what CS Lewis writes. Especially about recalling what a person was like when they lived. I highly recommend this book.

An account of grief written from the heart.

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