I read you a favourite part of the Voyage of the Dawn Treader and give thanks for the life of Stan Mattson, founder of the CS Lewis Foundation If you like, you can encourage me with coffee and cake here: www.buymeacoffee.com/malcolmg...
Malcolm, Thank you for sharing this lovely passage from a book I loved when I was a boy. On Monday I go in for a surgery to remove a rather nasty brain tumor. If all goes well I will be better than ok, but there are always risks. Should I pass beyond Tolkien's "grey rain curtain" or past Lewis' "Wave at the end of the World" know that discovering your channel and your musings on poetry have been a chief source of Joy these past few months. I hope that if I do pass, I can share Reepicheep's trembling joy and say with Theoden King, "I go to my fathers, in whose mighty company I shall not now feel ashamed" To anyone who reads this and prays to our Mighty God and Savior Jesus Christ please pray for me.
The peace of the Lord Jesus be with you. You just have to relinquish all control as you go through this, David, and look forward to the sweetness and surprise of waking afterwards!
Excellent read! Thank you, Malcom. The Narnia collections are my favorite. I have read The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe once a year for decades now. I never grow tired of that story. GOD bless you. ~ Debbie
Thank the Lord for writers like Lewis to write such prose. But also, thank the Lord for people like you and like the person who pointed this out about the man, to help us see new beauty in the prose we had already enjoyed. It’s similar to when you have read a scripture your whole life and it is beautiful, and then one day you have matured enough that the spirit reveals a new angle of beauty in the verse you have read 100 times!
I read the Narnia books right in the middle of my reversion back to Christianity. They were instrumental in the readying of my heart and mind for a deeper acceptance of Christ as Lord. Thank you for taking me back as if to the moment I first read that passage. Then, as now, I am gifted by tears and, as Lucy said, I am left heart broken. Thank you, Malcolm, for your ardent love of literature. The gifts which God has given you to both write and share beauty are doing good things. God bless you!
I know exactly what Lucy meant by a joyful music to break your heart. I'm not one who normally weeps at a story, but it reminds me of the passage near the end of the Lord of the Rings, "'A great shadow has passed,' said Gandalf, and then he laughed, and the sound was like music, or like water in a parched land; and as he listened the thought came to Sam that he had not heard laughter, the pure sound of merriment, for days upon days without count. It fell upon his ears like the echo of all the joys he had ever known. But he himself burst into tears. Then, as a sweet rain will pass down a wind of spring and the sun will shine out the clearer, his tears ceased, and his laughter welled up..." This passage gets me every time.
I love this scene. Always reminds me of the old Celtic saints who would venture forth in their rudderless coracles, taken wherever the waves and the will of God takes them, to the "place of their resurrection".
My favourite is 'The Horse and His Boy' because it's somehow the most intimate of them all. Only few characters throughout the story. They are all great of course. "Why," said I, "was it so sad?" "Sad!! No," said Lucy.
These videos are brilliant. I’d love to spend an afternoon in this study looking through the books, smoking a pipe, and sipping bourbon. What a delight!!!
I must just say, as a filmmaker, the quiet popping of your pipe there was a delicious sound. People upload all manner of videos with ambient sounds to relax or fall to sleep to but I have yet to come across one featuring the puffing pipe smoker's ambience... were you to make it, I believe it might very well go viral! 😉
It seems that Lewis described Aslan's country according to his own deepest longings. The endlessly rising mountains which in Pilgrim's Regress are the heights of reason are not now harsh or icy, but full of green forests and waterfalls which represent sublimity and imagination and sensuality. The perfection of truth and meaning.
Just recently found you. Can't express the sense of reprieve in finding someone with both knowledge of and appreciation for the art of words well strung. I've also been enjoying perusing some of your older content. Thank you.
Malcolm , since my wife Linda shared your verses with me God has begun to pull back the curtain to reveal so many other of your brother poets . Since that moment m they continue to knock on my door with increasing regularity to my great surprise and joy … Kevin Clements
Malcolm, thank you for this. It does my heart such good, friend. Bless you, and bless our brother Stan. How I look forward to seeing him in Aslan's Country, and hearing his booming voice again, all mended and whole.
My favorite novel, I was lucky enough to find an original hard copy as a child in a box of books being given away at my school library. I absolutely loved the illustrations, they really made the book come to life. Also, I never really understood what Reep's final voyage meant but I remember there was a reverance in this last chapter for me.
Thank you for such masterful reading. I'm humbled by these words and now have to read the Chronicles in print to feel this beauty first hand. Yes it did make me feel my faith too when I listen to you read this excerpt, for this I thank you again Malcolm
Thank you, brother! I was born in 1950 and grew up with these books because my lovely Mother took me to our local public library where I found them. I didn't understand anything but the fun and longing. All of this was the Lord's leading.
Always a delight to spend time just enjoying your company with such wonderful readings. You are an inspiration, dear sir! May the Lord bless you and yours! Thank you 😊 ❤
Wonderful and very poignant as I just found out my favourite uncle died last week. He had a good innings at 97, and now he’s with my dad, his beloved wife and my other uncle, safe in Asland’s country. He served in the Merchant Navy during WW2 moving goods across the North Atlantic, ducking and diving to avoid the U-Boats His ship was once ice bound in Montréal where I now live. What a coincidence. Many thanks for posting.
Thank you, Malcolm. This brought back the memory of how I felt reading this the first time - every time, really - but especially the first. God bless you.
Thank you, Malcolm, for reading this lovely passage. Memory offers up a certain line from the Book of Common Prayer that speaks of a sure and certain hope.
Malcolm are you familiar with the idea of Lewis being a Rosicrucian--the truly ancient form of Christianity which concerns the souls rebinding to the Word within--coupling with your opposite energy within to achieve singular energy and rise like the fleur de lis.
@@MalcolmGuitespell Thank you for Williams, yes co-inherence is something I share with him: seeing the beloved through the eyes of God. Amazing how few people understand this notion--like Bernard of Clairvaux, who sought God above all and in all and hoped to help all to experience that rarified moment. The Holy Royal Arch Degree is knowing God without difference. I almost got Russell Crowe to play Major General William Howe (in Taking Command link on my u tube site) who knew a thing or two about this and helped my America to become.
seeing someone smoking a pipe today makes me wonder how good it feels, especially considering the newer methods of nicotine delievery, ie vaping being so much more superior and of course less harmful
