Still Waters Introduction: The Beginning of a Song This chapter opens the first movement of a twelve-part journey that will unfold over the course of a year under the title The Songs of Liberation. These writings are not offered as abstract theology, nor as detached reflection, but as a spiritual pilgrimage. They trace the way a human life is drawn from distress into peace, from inner fragmentation into restored identity, and from healing into divine purpose through Jesus Chr

Imagine you're trying to achieve something, you have a great plan for your life and you are thinking of it, you imagine this thing and you go through all the work, the training, the prayers, and all the sacrifices involved for you to achieve this very thing and you believe you have all this faith, you say you have all the faith in the world and you believe in whatever faith you believe in and you just decide to go for it. You do all these things to cover the fact that we don'

C.S. Lewis and Joy Davidman came from similar backgrounds in that they were both intellectuals, geniuses, very intelligent, and of course, atheists. However, there's a slight difference in their upbringing in that C.S. Lewis was a Christian and she was an atheist. Although from a Jewish background, Joy Davidman made her way to the UK, and C.S. Lewis is enthralled by this woman's analytical ability, her strength of mind, and he marries her for her to stay in the UK. However, n