Again I will blog about Lewis’ “A Grief Observed” because simply I find it intriguing and I simply have no clue what else to write about. Lewis says in one passage, "If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love." For me this is odd because I have always been told that there will be no pain in heaven and it seems like the pain of separation is one of the worst types of pain. However he does specify that it may be a purgatorial pain but this also strikes me as odd because I am no theologian but I thought that the current Christian doctrine was that purgatory did not exist and if I am correct it is the Catholics who believe in purgatory. Now I’m also not a huge C. S. Lewis fanatic but as I recall he was not Catholic. So this statement is very strange to me due to the fact that from everything I have heard, read and come to believe is that heaven is a place without suffering. In my opinion I don’t even think I will remember those who are still living here on earth because the very memory of earth will be painful to think of due to past sins. To me it seems like the only way the dead could remember the living is if they were in Hell. But what makes my mind twirl even more is that God grieves over us and our sin. So maybe heaven is a completely different type of place then I have always imagined. Maybe we will feel pain for those we love as God does.
Hmmm, i enjoyed reading your blog Matt. "In my opinion I don’t even think I will remember those who are still living here on earth because the very memory of earth will be painful to think of due to past sins." I think that when we go to heaven, if on that day He says, "Well done my good and faithful servant," we will not even think about earth. We will be so in awe of our Lord and God, praising and singing to Him that we will not have remotely the same thinking as we did. But this is exciting to know, that we, one day, will be swept away by our Creator and we will be in heaven and truly on that day, we will know exactly what heaven is.
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