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When Giving Less Means Giving More #Charity365

There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditure excludes them. –C.S. Lewis

The Impact

I have a cleft palate. Not the prettiest thing in the world, and certainly not the easiest to live with, but I’ve had to deal with it all my life and it has shaped and directed me, whether I wanted it to or not.

As it happened, I was watching TV on a recent, lazy weekend afternoon and channel hopped passed an infomercial about children with cleft palates. I backed up and figured I’d watch for a minute or two… Much later, after many tragic stories with amazingly happy endings, I was pretty convinced what organization I wanted to help next.

But I really didn’t have any more money to give…

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C.S. Lewis is Cleverer Than You Think

My good friend, Jamie, liked a Relevant Magazine article today titled C.S. Lewis’ 3 Most Controversial Beliefs. Both of us are a big fans of Lewis and it piqued my interest as much as Jamie’s, I’m sure. Some of the “controversies” noted would surely either convince his admirers that some of these claims are actually attributable to Lewis and are biblically acceptable or may shake the faith of Lewis’ more die-hard fans, such as myself, and wonder about the foundations of Lewis’ personal faith. Having read a lot first-hand from Lewis, and second-hand of the man, I nearly immediately recognized these claims were probably not what they were really claiming.

You see, the thing about really clever men and women, like Lewis, is that they’re clever enough to know when they’re beat, even when they are miserably unhappy such as on the amusing-for-us occasion of Lewis’ conversion. It is this trait of Lewis, and all truly clever men and women, that propels, or drags, an individual from one intellectual peak to the next. Such is the case with Lewis and these purported controversies.

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The Chronicles of Narnia by Focus on the Family Radio Theatre

Focus on the Family may be many things but I will always be impressed by the quality, competence and passion poured into the Radio Theatre presentations of each of the seven books in C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia.

When the first movie came out, The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, I felt quite let down as someone who cherishes the books. When I found the complete “audio book” set (ISBN 1-58997-299-6), around the same time, I was delighted to find out I was getting much more than I bargained for. These things are the next best things to the books and, in some ways, they surpass the books. Don’t get me wrong, these aren’t just readings of the book: They’re full blown professionally narrated, professionally acted, theatrically scored “full cast dramas.” They are exceptional.

If you were wishing a little more magic from the books after all the years, you won’t be disappointed hearing Lucy, once again, delighted as only a child could be at discovering the magic on the other side of the wardrobe.

We’re just not that bright.

God’s Word is so incredible, so unique, so creative, so powerful and profound, that it’s something we humans would never have thought up.

Something I didn’t know about Moby,

I read the New Testament, specifically the gospels and I was struck at their divinity, feeling that humans could not have figured this out on their own. We’re just not bright enough.

I think I got the same idea from C.S. Lewis.

God’s Word is so incredible, so unique, so creative, so powerful and profound, that it’s something we humans would never have thought up.

You can look to the multitude of religions out there which are clearly what mankind would’ve made up. They’re exactly the kind of thing we would want a religion to be so that we could acquire our own salvation.

But the truth is there’s nothing we can do except accept what God has already done, sacrificing His only Son on the cross, that by the shedding of blood our sins would be forgiven.