A Grief Observed

Written after his wife's tragic death as a way of surviving the "mad midnight moment," A Grief Observed is C.S. Lewis's honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss. This work contains his concise, genuine reflections on that period: "Nothing will shake a man -- or at any rate a man like me -- out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself." This is a beautiful and unflinchingly honest record of how even a stalwart believer can lose all sense of meaning in the universe, and how he can gradually regain his bearings.

• The Problem of Pain
• Lament for a Son
• Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
• Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying
• Death & Dying, Life & Living
• On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss
• Miracles
• The Great Divorce
• When Dinosaurs Die: A Guide to Understanding Death (Dino Tales: Life Guides for Families)
• Grieving the Loss of Someone You Love: Daily Meditations To Help You Through The Grieving Process