Hello everybody and welcome to my blog. This is my first time blogging, so I hope this will be fun and informative for you. My full name is Clive Staples Lewis, but you may call me “Jack” as my friends and family do. I guess you would like to know about me, that is why you are here. Let’s see, I was born on November 29, 1898 in Belfast Ireland, and I work at Oxford University. Before Oxford, I served in the English Army but I was wounded in WWI. I was sent home after receiving a wound from shrapnel. I started my university years at Oxford, and then I was awarded a fellowship teaching position at Magdelon College, which is part of the University.
First and foremost, I am a Christian. You will see this all throughout my writings. But I was not born as a Christian; it was a long journey as God was hunting me to become one. I’m sure I will go deeper into this as I create more postings. Not only am I employed with the university, but I love to write books. I write fiction and non-fiction books. I love reading the bible, and often imagine a world outside of this realm of earth. I even wrote about another world known as Narnia. I wrote plenty of stories about this world are full of bravery, evil, talking animals, and a large lion named Aslan. I will explain more of this world later on also.
I hope you will all enjoy my blogs, as I hope to inspire you. I hope to provoke your imagination to know God more and more each day. I encourage you to comment, and let’s have some great discussions.
Jack-“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”
Hey Doug, thanks for being the first to comment. You raise good points in which I will address, but I want to clarify something I overstated. I wrote God was hunting me, but it was more like God gave me another H word, and that is hunger. God gave me a hunger to find out if he was really there. My friend Tolkien explained it to me that way anyways. It turns out he was right as a few days later I believed Jesus was the Son of God.
ReplyDeleteJack, It is great to meet and talk with people of the same tribe. I agree with you about being in community and reflecting Christ together with other believers. I am so grateful that God is gathering people from all over the world and putting us together in smaller groups to make his light so bright it will be impossible to miss. I really enjoyed the example you used about the dirty mirror. Keep up the good work.
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Susan Pevensie
Susan-Thank you for checking out my blog-it encourages me to keep writing. I do think theology should be done in community because we can have a better understanding of our God this way. I think the dirty mirror describes us very well as human beings.
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