Creation

“The sun will burn your eyes out from 92 million miles, and you expect to casually stroll into the presence of its Creator.”

“The same sun that hardens the clay melts the ice.”

“Natural selection may explain the survival of the fittest, but it cannot explain the arrival of the fittest.”

“Men go abroad to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the…

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In life, bad stuff happens. Sometimes, even really bad stuff happens. And from time to time, outright evil strikes our lives. It leaves us asking “Why?” in a desperate search for answers. But we must be leery of some of the answers we’re offered.

Like this one from atheist, Richard Dawkins.

Ms. Eloise heard a knock at the door one afternoon, and shuffling her way over to it, opened it to find Kyle, a sweet-but-hyper little boy, standing on her porch clutching a baseball glove. The elderly woman, a grandma many times over in her own right, immediately recognized the sheepish look on the little boy’s face.

It was “one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind” as humans walked upon the lunar surface of the moon in the summer of ‘69. Those brave astronauts cemented their triumph by leaving behind inarguable evidence of their visit to the celestial body.

They could have borrowed the idea from God; after all, He left strong proof of His visit to our planet, too.

C.S. Lewis lived during a tough period in mankind’s history, the First and Second World Wars. All of Europe was thrown into suffering, and Mr. Lewis’ tragedy was compounded even further after the death of his beloved wife, Joy. But the famous atheist-turned-Christian-author never gave up hope.

And maybe that’s why his teachings on hope have helped so many others, decades later.