Saturday in the First Week of Lent: Letter 8 Notes
Letter 8 Notes The Propers for Today are HERE. We begin today with the Law of Undulation! It seems that The Patient is experiencing some of that doubt in his religious life that we talked about in Letter 7. Wormwood thinks it is because his temptations are working. Screwtape tells his nephew to think again! In The Screwtape Letters, C. S. Lewis often distinguishes between the Life of the Spirit and our physical needs. Remember the man in the museum? Screwtape countered thoughts of God by reminding him it was lunch time. It’s hard to be holy when you are hungry! Well under the Law of Undulation, Screwtape takes this a step further. There are highs and lows in the spiritual life. We feel closer to God in Church than in the grocery store. We go to Camp McDowell and experience God directly in our lives – but then we inevitably must go back to the real world. This “UNDULATION” between spiritual highs and lows is a ...