I have called my material surroundings a stage set. In this I can act.
And you may well say "act". For what I call "myself" (for all
practical, everyday purposes) is also a dramatic construction;
memories, glimpses in the shavinglass, and snatches of the very
fallible activity called "introspection", are the principal
ingredients. Normally I call this construction "me"' and the stage set
"the real world". Now the moment of prayer is for me -- or involves for
me as its condition -- the awareness, the reawakened awareness, that
this "real world" and "real self" are very far from being rock-bottom
realities. I cannot, in the flesh, leave the stage, either to go behind
the scenes or to take my seat in the pit; but I can remember that these
regions exist. And I also remember that my apparent self -- this clown
or hero or super -- under his grease-paint is a real person with an
off-stage life. The dramatic person could not tread the stage unless he
concealed a real person: unless the real and unknown I existed, I would
not even make mistakes about the imagined me. And in prayer this real I
struggles to speak, for once, from his real being, and to address, for
once, not the other actors, but -- what shall I call Him? The Author,
for He invented us all? The Producer, for He controls all? Or the
Audience, for He watches, and will judge, the performance?
...
C. S. Lewis,
Letters to Malcolm
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Hey Lianna!
How is the CD coming along? Will it be released very soon?
I just got it yesterday! Like 10 minutes after I wrote that comment.
Yea it's really good! Really good! Sounds to me like it will be a very powerful tool in a lot of people's lives. I know that the really powerful celtic sound you created throughout the whole album will draw people into the presence of God very quickly. I really like how the songs all flow together. And as for my parts.... I am totally pleased with them. Thank you!!