The Prayer Proceeding All Prayers…
I see a reoccurring theme in CS Lewis’ works. That theme is the contrast of the self and the Self. That is the small ‘self’ which is self absorbed, self centered and self-will (free will) run amuck. The true ‘Self’ is that which is created in God’s Image. In the “Chronicles of Narnia” these two selves seem to be emphasized. I believe when the children enter the ‘wardrobe’ they begin to realize who they ‘really’ are or could be. I thought of that when I read this today…
…”The prayer preceding all prayers is ‘May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to.’ Infinitely various are the levels from which we pray. Emotional intensity is in itself no proof of spiritual depth. If we pray in terror we shall pray earnestly; it only proves that terror is an earnest emotion. Only God Himself can let the bucket down to the depths in us. And, on the other side, He must constantly work as the iconoclast. (That is to say) Every idea of Him we form, He must in mercy shatter. The most blessed result of prayer would be to rise thinking, ’But I never knew before. I never dreamed…’ I suppose it was at such a moment that Thomas Aquinas said of all his own theology, ‘It reminds me of straw.‘ “-CS Lewis
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