Thursday in the 5th Week of Lent: Letter 30
The Scripture Readings for Today are HERE! We open Letter 30 with the good news that the Patient has proven himself in the bombings of his village and has not given in to the temptations of Wormwood. In fact, Screwtape is now quite disappointed in his nephew and tells him so. He says about the Patient that: He has been very frightened and thinks himself a great coward and therefore feels no pride; but he has done everything his duty demanded and perhaps a bit more. We can assume given what we learned in letter 29, that while the Patient thinks he is a coward, he has not given into the vice of hatred for the enemy. However, he also has not given into pride which can come as the result of feeling overly courageous. We hear the word courage thrown around way too much these days. A football player is said to have courage when he pulls off a good play. He may be a good athlete, but I don’t believe we can compare running a football to servin...