A favourite quote of mine

This might be considered lazy but this is my blog and I will indeed post as I wish to. This is a favourite quote of mine from CS Lewis.

I am not arguing that pain is not painful. Pain hurts. That is what the word means. I am only trying to show that the old christian doctrine of being made "perfect through suffering" is not incredible. To prove it palatable is beyond my design......
My own experience is something like this. I am progressing along the path of life in my ordinarily contentedly fallen and godless condtion, absorbed in a merry meeting with my friends for the morrow or a bit of work that tickles my vanity today, or a new book, when suddenly a stab of abdominal pain that threatens serious disease, or a headline in the newspapers that threatens us all with destruction, sends this whole pack of cards tumbling down. At first I am overwhelmed, and all my little happinesses look like broken toys. Then, slowly and reluctantly, bit by bit, I try to bring myself into the frame of mind that I should be in at all times. I remind myself that all these toys were never intended to possess my heart, that my true good is in another world and my only real treasure is Christ. And perhaps, by God's grace, I succeed, and for a day or two become a creature consciously dependent on God and drawing strength from the right sources. But the moment the threat is withdrawn, my whole nature leaps back to the toys...
Thus the terrible necessity of tribulation is only too clear. God has had me for but forty-eight hours and then only by dint of taking everything else away from me.

Josh