# “Our Father refreshes us on the journey” by C.S. Lewis

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- Published: 2020-06-15T12:00:49-05:00
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“The settled happiness and security which we all desire, God withholds from us by
the very nature of the world: but joy, pleasure, and merriment He has scattered 
broadcast. We are never safe, but we have plenty of fun, and some ecstasy.

It is not hard to see why. The security we crave would teach us to rest our hearts
in this world and oppose an obstacle to our return to God: a few moments of happy
love, a landscape, a symphony, a merry meeting with friends, a bathe or a football
match, have no such tendency.

Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage
us to mistake them for home.”

–C.S. Lewis, [_The Problem of Pain_](https://amzn.to/3e3Ckpt) (New York: Simon &
Schuster, 1940/1996), 103.

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