SEPTEMBER 15
Heaven will solve our problems, but not, I think, by showing
us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contra-
dictory notions. The notions will all be knocked from under
our feet. We shall see that there never was any problem.
And, more than once, that impression which I can’t describe
except by saying that it’s like the sound of a chuckle in the
darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming
simplicity is the real answer.
—C. S. LEWISI suspect that a large part of the energy we spend in ponder-
ing the various possible scenarios of life after death is just
the energy of grief needing a place to go. But since we are
given to speculating—and since there is a persistent convic-
tion found in many religions that there is life beyond human
death—perhaps we could throw our hats into the ring of
hope, and surmise that while we don’t know what God is
doing in creation, God knows, and will see us through.
In attending to the mysteries of life and death, I will listen for a
chuckle in the darkness.