At the beginning it is not about understanding, but about enduring.
„No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.“
The historical background
After his wife Joy died in 1960, Lewis wrote his notes in whatever empty notebooks he found around the house, with no intention of publishing them. In them the famously confident author describes doubt, emptiness and the physical restlessness of the first weeks.
The way into the light
He kept writing, and those notebooks became "A Grief Observed" – still the book most often pressed into the hands of the newly bereaved. His unvarnished pain became comfort for strangers.
Your question for today
What are you actually feeling right now – beyond what you think you should feel?