{"id":8029,"date":"2014-02-06T01:17:31","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T05:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=8029"},"modified":"2014-02-06T01:17:31","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T05:17:31","slug":"from-the-screwtape-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2014\/02\/from-the-screwtape-letters.html","title":{"rendered":"From &#8220;The Screwtape Letters&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>(being quoted in <em>The Orthodox Way<\/em>)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>God, so C.S. Lewis remarks in <em>The Screwtape Letters<\/em>, wants men to attend chiefly to two things: \u201cto eternity itself, and to that point of time which they call the Present. For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity. Of the present moment, and of it only, humans have an experience which [God] has of reality as a whole; in it alone freedom and actuality are offered them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(being quoted in The Orthodox Way) God, so C.S. Lewis remarks in The Screwtape Letters, wants men to attend chiefly to two things: \u201cto eternity itself, and to that point of time which they call the Present. For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity. 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