<p>On heaven<br><br><span style="color: #f89009;">Redeemed </span>humanity <b>is </b>still young, it <b>has </b>hardly <b>come </b>to its full strength. </p><p> </p><p>But already there <b>is </b>joy enough /in the little finger of a great saint such as yonder lady </p><p>/to waken all the dead things of the universe into life.<br><br>Everything <b>becomes </b>more and more itself. Here <b>is </b>joy //that <b>cannot be shaken</b>.</p><p> </p><p>Our light <b>can swallow up</b> your darkness; but your darkness <b>cannot</b> now <b>infect</b> our light.</p><p> </p><p>No, no, no.</p><p> </p><p><b>Come</b> to us.</p><p> </p><p>We <b>will not go</b> to you.</p><p> </p><p><b>Can</b> you really <b>have thought</b> that love and joy <b>would</b> always <b>be</b> at the mercy of frowns and sighs?</p><p> </p><p><b>Did</b> you <b>not know</b> () they <b>were</b> stronger than their opposites?</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><br><br>From The Great Divorce<br>Compiled in Words to Live By<br><br>The Great Divorce. Copyright © 1946, C. S Lewis Pte. Ltd. Copyright renewed 1973 C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers. Words to Live By: A Guide for the Merely Christian. Copyright © 2007 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers.</p>
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