“Lewis … is the ideal persuader for the half convinced, for the good man who would like to be Christian but finds his intellect getting in the way…Lewis will always steady the waverer, convert the soul ready for conversion… yet joy exists, and there has to be a source. When we find the source, which is God, we may not need joy anymore. Not, that is, till we get down to the serious business of heaven…” (New-York Times, 1977 ref. Journals of Al. Shmemann)
I admired here with the idea that when we will find God, perhaps we would change that joy we needed in journey, we will lose the sense of its color we have being beyond God. Indeed its seeing true – when you are thirsty you have one strong feeling to reach the water and when later you come to the spring and drink fill – what do you feel? Some another faint that thirsty is/was – the same with joy and God? Who can tell me what we will be watching in Glory? I think nobody as It is for each.... My Mystery and Warmth, my soul and sea, shells and green waves - but it was not the Glory - just some memory of the joy I have ever experienced.
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