I always thought "The Great Divorce" by C.S. Lewis was another one of his essays. But I was pleasantly surprised to find out it is a short story, a fiction, about the afterlife. It joins only two other books that I have read in one night. C.S. Lewis is one of the best writers I've ever read because he communicates thoughts that normally seems hard to express, like unto to how the Spirit prays to God the Father for us with "groanings that cannot be expressed" (Rom 8:26).
Here is one excerpt I found to be phenomenal:
"Don't you remember on earth--there were things too hot to touch with your finger but you could drink them all right? Shame is like that. If you will accept it--if you will drink the cup to the bottom--you will find it very nourishing: but try to do anything else with it and it scalds."
Did you know that N.D. Wilson is writing the screenplay for a movie of the Great Divorce?
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