I last left off with my discovery of C.S. Lewis, this was back in the late 1980's and Lewis was not popular. In the current time, Lewis is immensely popular among Evangelical Christians, back then I thought I was the only one reading him. Lewis taught me that it was okay, even holy, to open up my imagination. It was okay to love science fiction, to think and ponder, to dream and know that God is greater than my biggest dreams and pleasures (these dreams and pleasures could actually be God speaking to me). I learned to love literature and argument, at this time I took more Philosophy classes and we were studying the early Greek philosophers, I excelled because I saw hints of what I read from Lewis in their ideas. This was another class where a very tough teacher saw potential in me, I remember her returning my essay saying wistfully that I wrote so well. I was grinning from ear-to-ear, this was probably the greatest compliment I ever received in my life! I felt then that there was hope for me to do something good in the world, that I had found my calling. I was actually good for something!
So a new world opened up before me, the title of these posts say that life for me is a matter of seeing. Lewis reconnected me to the wonder I had as a child, that there could be something more going on behind the scenes of the reality we live through each day. He taught me to look deeper and gave me hope. For this I am eternally grateful.
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