CS Lewis is my favorite author and I loved this book. So real.

I'm about 2/3 of the way through it. Lewis experienced many of the same feelings that I have. Good to get another's perspective.

My husband loved this book, I have not read it but loved Mere Christianity by him.

There is a wonderful movie about this period in his life. "Shadowlands" stars Anthony Hopkins and Deborah Winger.

I think there is a similar British movie - same title and subject. Also very good.

It would be great to submit some of his wonderful quotes. Here's a start:

"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable." CS Lewis

I love that quote, icezam19!

I have heard that it is a good book but have not read it yet. After seeing this post I will put it on my list. I have read a lot of his quotes and found them to be good for me.

this might be the whole book on line here:

http://korycapps.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/cs-lewis-a-grief-observed.pdf

Thanks everyone for the comments. I just read the book quickly after I went to bed last night and first thing this morning so I need to sit down and read it more reflectively now. That is a good idea icezam about giving our favorite quotes. The one you gave is very good--something we need to ponder as we travel this new path we are on.

Has anyone on DS seen the movie Shadowlands?

you can watch the movie free here:

http://www.hulu.com/watch/555067

I'm watching some of it now.

I haven't watched the movie but I need to. I picked up the book to find a quote to post here and the first sentence grabbed be! Here it is:

"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. the same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing.

At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says."

The fear and the blanket both resonated with me. I was almost crippled by fear when it came time to begin working on my farm last spring and interacting with others and so many everyday things.

Has anyone else had to work through crippling fear on their journey?