A Grief Observed C. S. Lewis Unabridged Audiobook

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  • Опубликовано: 24 ноя 2024

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  • @davidregier1463
    @davidregier1463 11 месяцев назад +37

    Kudos to the narrator on letting the recording roll despite minor slip ups and stumbles or corrections. It's so refreshing, it preserves the man's humanity and maybe even serves as a significant factor in why I'm a fully immersed in the story and hanging on every word! God bless you, sir

    • @timsmitchell
      @timsmitchell  11 месяцев назад +9

      Thanks for your kind words! There are so many hateful people who comment on this video. Your feedback is genuinely helpful and refreshing.

    • @EmileeMarieee
      @EmileeMarieee 4 месяца назад +3

      I could not agree more❤

  • @ryleetenbrock8389
    @ryleetenbrock8389 4 года назад +187

    Dad passed away just over a month ago. I'm only 16 and don't have many who understand. Thank You.

    • @blueskies06203
      @blueskies06203 4 года назад +5

      I'm so sorry to hear that. I'm hear for you if you need anyone to talk to or provide any support/resources.

    • @JazyMusic13
      @JazyMusic13 4 года назад +9

      Hi Rylee,
      I don't know but only can imagine how hard it must be! Blessings be with you and your family. Know that another heart aches for you from afar and hope that God heals your heart.
      Love,
      Jasmine

    • @ryleetenbrock8389
      @ryleetenbrock8389 4 года назад +4

      @@JazyMusic13thank you! It means a lot!

    • @AndyFlagg1
      @AndyFlagg1 4 года назад +3

      It's OK. He's so being taken good care of.

    • @bcdl7961
      @bcdl7961 4 года назад +4

      Dear Rylee, I lost my mother three months back and I know exactly how you feel kiddo. Sending you lots of love and postive vibes. Please remember you are not alone.

  • @paytonferguson9014
    @paytonferguson9014 11 месяцев назад +6

    Last week we lost our first baby from a miscarriage, and so the grief has been very overwhelming and confusing. This book, while the grief CS Lewis faced is different in a lot of ways to the grief me and my husband face, has been very comforting and relatable. Thank you so much for this audiobook! It’s been my companion as I go through my chores for the day, and what not. So many things he said, have brought about healing for me. God bless you!

  • @justmorenoise
    @justmorenoise 2 года назад +21

    Thankyou for reading it out loud Tim. If it weren’t read out loud for me I wouldn’t have access to such treasure. I can not read and comprehend at the same time. I just listened to The Problem Of Pain yesterday and I’m so excited I have access to hear books out loud. When I was little I would cry that I couldn’t read but I would have never dreamt such technology would come to exist to help me learn more about God and make some sense all the pain and confusion.
    God bless your reading and work as it is truely God’s work you do.
    Such beautiful fruit. What a wonderful gift.

  • @mrewanmorrison
    @mrewanmorrison 5 лет назад +45

    Lewis starts at 22.37

  • @QueenBee-gp1jr
    @QueenBee-gp1jr 5 лет назад +67

    I read this book after my mother died in May 2018. She was my everything, glad I could listen to it again. Thank you

    • @chuckhockey9464
      @chuckhockey9464 4 года назад +3

      Year of magical thinking by Didion

    • @MynameisVi
      @MynameisVi 4 года назад +6

      I can so relate to your pain. I read the book in 2013 many years after my mother's death. She left me when I was just 26, shattered me. This( Lewis') chronicling of pain is so raw and beautiful and gut wrenching.
      It truly is a remarkable work.

    • @katjagrushina5085
      @katjagrushina5085 4 года назад +2

      There is no use reading this book if you don't have the same experience. It brought me comfort after my younger brother had died a year ago.

    • @PriyaFly
      @PriyaFly 2 года назад +1

      My mother passed away .. I am really sad

    • @deliarealtor
      @deliarealtor 2 года назад

      My mother passed away October 31, 2019. This book gives me comfort. I hope to convince my sister in law to listen, we lost my brother 5 years ago and she is still deep in grief.

  • @Skurafaso
    @Skurafaso 4 года назад +23

    This was a good listen. To see a man go through all the feelings and thoughts of grief...So relatable. I love this book.

  • @wk1810
    @wk1810 5 лет назад +28

    This is why I strive so greatly to make Him my all-in-all. I fear my life will suffer such a blow it won't ever recover! God alone will walk me, gently, lovingly through each memory and save my soul time upon time. He will have taken my greatest friend and spiritual ally, and I ask Him to give me a double portion of himself.

  • @erinjay8431
    @erinjay8431 Год назад +3

    I read this at 18. 25 years ago. My Mom passed 9 days ago. Thanks for posting as I no longer have the book. Grief is the strangest feeling. He captures it although parental loss is different then a spouse.

    • @nopenopenopeagain
      @nopenopenopeagain 5 дней назад

      my dad passed away 10 days ago. same with you, I couldn't really comprehend this book before. Lewis does capture the feeling of grief. the uncomfortable and strangest feeling.

  • @girle.madtail8464
    @girle.madtail8464 4 месяца назад +1

    I read A Grief Observed years ago and I didn’t quite understand how grieve could feel like fear. In my mind, they were two different emotions resulted by different experiences. But recently, when my mother died, I was going through terrible feelings that I couldn’t quite describe. Feelings of anxiety and physical illness. I decided to read the book again, and the first few lines hit me immediately. Grief does feel like fear. It does make you feel drunk or concussed. It is a whole slew of emotionally painful feelings striking all at once. Grief is so difficult to describe, but Lewis comes so close.

  • @alextchap99
    @alextchap99 5 лет назад +48

    22:38 chapter 1

    • @TheCaramrod24
      @TheCaramrod24 4 года назад +4

      Was that a 22 minute ad? Just want to listen to the book. Thanks for the timestamp.

    • @king_noah_2692
      @king_noah_2692 Год назад

      @@TheCaramrod24no, it’s the introduction and forward. The intro is by Douglas Gresham, Joy’s son.

  • @mrg8255
    @mrg8255 7 месяцев назад +4

    I think I didn’t let me grieve. Now I’m overwhelmed with grief. Grief for my past behavior, sins & loss of loved ones..

  • @jamesstangler4067
    @jamesstangler4067 2 года назад +2

    A profound awareness I’ve gotten from this is that I’ve been much more in to my grief than her pain. Thank you.

  • @Jojo-jq7gg
    @Jojo-jq7gg Месяц назад

    Prayers for my bestie Rhonda as she struggles for her life. Lord bless her with your grace and peace.

  • @thomashicks_1988
    @thomashicks_1988 7 месяцев назад +1

    Great job brother !!! 🙏🏾😅 Absolutely loved it! I had a 4 hour drive today from Orlando FL down to Naples FL - this is my wife’s bed time read and now we can have conversation about it when she’s done 🙏🏾 I’m grateful for you

    • @timsmitchell
      @timsmitchell  7 месяцев назад

      Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

  • @karenbearden6198
    @karenbearden6198 11 месяцев назад +3

    I'd not yet read this and you rendered it beautifully. Thank you so much.

  • @ddab9183
    @ddab9183 4 года назад +6

    Thank you for such a beautiful reading of this poignant work of C. S. Lewis’, A Grief Observed.

  • @wlsncthrn
    @wlsncthrn 2 года назад +5

    Dad passed on last Monday Thank you for sharing.

  • @kitetoy28
    @kitetoy28 4 года назад +10

    You read it so well. Thank you. I felt exactly the same as C.S. Lewis did.

  • @klausehrhardt4481
    @klausehrhardt4481 4 года назад +10

    Ovid, Hermann Broch, Schubert, Shakespeare: the always recurring theme of the impotence of memory and that of the shapes to hold the real presence. But the voice, the voice and the silence of a namless grief remains. He is there, our tears are his, and he suffer all our grief in a way none of us could endure, for our own sake, even those griefs we don´t aknowledge by our empty eyes and meaningless frown. Silence: it bothers me no more as long as I can be in silence with him. My dear granny used to tell me in her last times on earth that when she finally became silent, then she started to listen voice of God. To love is to surrender, wether by embracing or letting it go.

  • @faketapioca2774
    @faketapioca2774 4 года назад +5

    Thank you so much for reading this! I hope you add more CS Lewis readings! 😊

  • @darcandelaria
    @darcandelaria 3 года назад +4

    Thank you for reading this book for us so nice of you! I have the book but haven't finished it so thanks and God bless you. ♥️

  • @ChaplainReece
    @ChaplainReece Год назад +1

    Thanks for sharing
    I bought the book a long time ago and never read it. I listened to you read it though.
    Thanks

  • @Davotheledge
    @Davotheledge 5 лет назад +6

    I haven't listened to all of this yet, but so far it very much reminds me of Alain de Botton's book Essays In Love. The honesty and transparency with which they analyse their innermost thoughts is remarkable.

  • @jeremysnowdenz
    @jeremysnowdenz Год назад +2

    Thank you for the reading.

  • @belvaingram276
    @belvaingram276 2 года назад

    Thank you young man for your narration. I was able to focus on my reading better than reading this book silently.

  • @christinamoynihan4021
    @christinamoynihan4021 4 года назад +2

    Thank you. My book does not have these 2 introductions, so I have learned even more from this narration!

  • @rosieg7582
    @rosieg7582 5 лет назад +22

    This was amazing, thank you. Lost my 23 yr old son Feb 2018 and there was so much I could relate to.

    • @timsmitchell
      @timsmitchell  5 лет назад +5

      I am sorry for your loss. God bless you.

    • @zac3392
      @zac3392 5 лет назад +4

      Rosie G I hope God has brought u some peace in the last year... I cannot imagine...

    • @chuckhockey9464
      @chuckhockey9464 4 года назад +2

      Sorry for your loss!

    • @jschuler53
      @jschuler53 Год назад

      Rosie I am so sorry for your loss. I lost my 33 year old son in July and I am still trying to deal with it. So hard to lose anyone but for me I keep reeling from having to sign a birth certificate and a death certificate. It's not the natural order of things. I don't know what to do.

    • @rosieg7582
      @rosieg7582 Год назад +1

      @@jschuler53 Oh I am so so sorry. I think losing your child is the worst pain imaginable. I started long distance running because no pill or therapy could help me deal with the pain but the physical outlet for it helped me get out of bed everyday. It took me probably 2&1/2 years before I stopped crying every day and wishing I could follow him. I found some mother grief support groups on Facebook that helped me know I wasn't alone. Slowly, very slowly, I promise the stabbing agony will subside. I got involved with some groups that promote veteran suicide awareness and now I carry my son and others when I'm out running races. Having a purpose helped me find some happiness again. I don't think we ever get over the pain but through God's grace we can learn to carry the cross, with hope that we will be together one day. God bless you, angel mom.

  • @robertjohn8711
    @robertjohn8711 4 года назад +30

    I’m shocked that forward from Mrs L'Engle was included in this reading, given that so many of her ideas are opposed to those of Lewis. That intro itself spat in the face of so much he stood for. “ The church is still pre-Copernican in its attitude toward death. The medieval picture of heaven and hell hasn’t been replaced with anything more realistic, or more loving. Perhaps for those who are convinced that only Christians of their own way of thinking are saved and will go to heaven, the old ideas are still ade- quate. But for most of us, who see a God of a much wider and greater love than that of the tribal God who only cares for his own little group, more is needed.“ this wildly insulting and condescending. It was extremely inappropriate and disrespectful for her to be pushing her ideas in this context. That’s genuinely sad

    • @decabba
      @decabba 4 года назад +8

      I thought the same thing. I despised it.

    • @tylerj9368
      @tylerj9368 4 года назад +5

      I might actually argue that Lewis has always seemed fairly progressive/ free-thinking in his depiction of final judgement and the afterlife. This may be a misinterpretation on mine or L'Engle's part, but L'Engle might have felt she found a fellow sympathizer in Lewis in several of his literary moments. I am thinking, in particular of his depiction of the ability to move between heaven and hell in the Great Divorce, or Aslan's pardoning (welcoming?) of the Calormen prince who had been devoted to Tash his whole life. In particular, it seems, he was most comfortable saying that it was entirely in God's power and knowledge which eternal destination a person might end up in. Though L'Engle might have taken this to the next level by asserting she has discovered God's mind in this matter, I can understand why she may have felt appropriate in her foreword.

    • @brenthelwig8305
      @brenthelwig8305 3 года назад +3

      I have always felt that Madeline would have made a good 'inkling'. The inklings, to me, embody the journey and process of faith. While each having their own 'pack' of beliefs which informed and shaped their personal path...they invited the challenge and discipline of engaging with others who had different contents in their 'pack'. It wasn't a threat but a welcomed exercise in growth, passion and expression.

    • @Jeweldee
      @Jeweldee 2 года назад

      But genuinely true...

    • @williamwilliams2592
      @williamwilliams2592 2 года назад

      the truth hurts. The religions of the world (in this case Christianity) are archaic, contradictory, juvenile and they retard the intellect.

  • @klausehrhardt4481
    @klausehrhardt4481 4 года назад +2

    1:33:00 The quote is from Lady Julian of Norwich´s Revelations of Divine Love.
    C.S. Lewis was also well read in St. Therese of Avila and in St. Paul of the Cross: the use he makes elsewhere (as for instance, The Screwtape leters) of terms like "dryness" and "night of the soul" point that out.

  • @John-lc4xe
    @John-lc4xe 5 лет назад +6

    Great, thank you! You have more courage than I.

  • @OldMovieRob
    @OldMovieRob 2 года назад +2

    Very well done reading. This is a difficult one to get through, but worth the trip.

  • @rahillrayma
    @rahillrayma 3 года назад +2

    Thank you so much for uploading it.

  • @danwu2718
    @danwu2718 3 года назад +1

    As the preface said this was written by Jack CS Lewis as a story of what he was wrestling with following the death of Joy H n was originally not going to be published. But he did originally wrote the book under a pseudonym!

  • @king_noah_2692
    @king_noah_2692 Год назад +2

    Intro: 8:38
    Chapter 1: 22:38
    Chapter 2: 38:17
    Chapter 3: 59:32
    Chapter 4: 1:25:59

  • @Zinferbuddy
    @Zinferbuddy 5 лет назад +7

    Thanks for reading

  • @danwu2718
    @danwu2718 3 года назад +2

    Cslewis really missed his wife. Joy davidman lewis! I miss Louise n gma keirn, n Anne Porter n Sarah B. They were very nice friends that I feel their own lives were cut short!!!

  • @Budloaf
    @Budloaf 4 года назад +6

    8:38 Introduction

  • @kanupriya1707
    @kanupriya1707 2 года назад

    Thank you for reading this ♥️

  • @tylerj9368
    @tylerj9368 4 года назад +4

    This has so much to do with what love is.

  • @uiPublic
    @uiPublic 11 месяцев назад

    I think the Greatest message that Jesus left with all of his beloved was to connect onto Spiritually blessed no matter setbacks reality troubles us?!
    Maybe that's good then He is away Lights travelling aheads having a helper here no lesser than God's Holy Spirit comfort so we too embark on journey...

    • @uiPublic
      @uiPublic 11 месяцев назад

      But that Israel's tryst at destiny hadn't ended even after travails in Arabia shows the generation grits expected redeeming pledge.

  • @twitchingkhan
    @twitchingkhan 3 года назад +3

    22:35 , first chapter

  • @puneetsharma4687
    @puneetsharma4687 4 года назад +2

    Thank you for reading this to us

  • @karendusang3266
    @karendusang3266 4 года назад +3

    I think the forward misunderstood what exactly a grief observed was actually about and it just wasn't about his wife. Every woman, starting with his mother, when he was just a young boy, died that he ever had any sort of emotion for.

    • @mr.d.572
      @mr.d.572 7 месяцев назад

      Sounds very similar to me!

  • @csurams84
    @csurams84 2 года назад +2

    I was the 1k like, on the nose 😄

  • @Gckirbydtx
    @Gckirbydtx 5 лет назад +8

    Good work. Don’t be afraid to edit.

  • @jamesedwards.1069
    @jamesedwards.1069 8 месяцев назад

    Isaiah 53
    1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
    2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
    3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
    4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
    5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

  • @charlieplayzdxb
    @charlieplayzdxb 4 года назад +2

    Thank you for sharing this!!

  • @alamedavigilante
    @alamedavigilante 2 года назад +1

    My copy says: "We all think we've got one another taped". Completely different meaning.

    • @lotechukwuikpo
      @lotechukwuikpo 3 месяца назад

      Yeah it was an error on the narrator's part

  • @anettebestwick6631
    @anettebestwick6631 4 года назад +2

    Thank you .

  • @blueskies06203
    @blueskies06203 4 года назад +3

    Forward:
    Beloved is so part of ourselves-
    How to be pray for what is a part of ourselves.
    Keeping a journal- part of our process.
    Consolation of religion- strength comfort- the loved one is being taken care of.
    Not in the realm of proof, but realm of love.
    Anguish doubt part of soul’s growth
    Bereavement- part of love too.
    All of the person - beyond idea and memory.
    What shines - affirmation of love.
    Love is in the context of God’s love
    Ultimate purpose of God- love
    Share in understanding of grief and understanding of love

    • @blueskies06203
      @blueskies06203 4 года назад

      The book is about- how to live life with- the pain, the loss, the suffering, the joy and love in life.

    • @blueskies06203
      @blueskies06203 4 года назад

      Invisible blanket- between world and me
      Feels like fear - drunk ; concussed.

    • @blueskies06203
      @blueskies06203 4 года назад

      By thinking it - we suffer and then think of it- reinforce it
      By writing- releasing it

    • @blueskies06203
      @blueskies06203 4 года назад

      Absence like sky- spread over everything
      Absence- locally home to me.
      Body.
      Like an empty house.
      Important to me again.

    • @blueskies06203
      @blueskies06203 4 года назад

      One only meets each hour that comes
      All matters- ups and downs
      Not the very thing itself.
      Thing itself/ ups and downs
      Rest is - a name: idea
      How much happiness- even when all Hope was gone.
      How noirishingly we talked last night
      But limit to the one flesh

  • @kathynunez2318
    @kathynunez2318 3 года назад

    to skip the forward, start at 8:40

  • @RunningTowardSunshine
    @RunningTowardSunshine 3 года назад +3

    1:26:00 Ch 4

  • @alexandrasmithreiner6238
    @alexandrasmithreiner6238 Год назад +1

    Narrator misses (substitutes words) on some verbs that are essential to the foreword. Good rhythm and otherwise clear enough diction.

  • @RunningTowardSunshine
    @RunningTowardSunshine 3 года назад +4

    38:17 Ch 2

  • @stevejeter330
    @stevejeter330 3 года назад +1

    It helps

  • @CynthiaJackson-i7o
    @CynthiaJackson-i7o Месяц назад

    Miller Gary Hernandez Melissa Allen Deborah

  • @CA11100
    @CA11100 2 года назад

    Chapters:

    • @CA11100
      @CA11100 2 года назад

      Chapters:
      0:00 - 22:34 Foreword & Introduction

  • @Mykitchenchanne1
    @Mykitchenchanne1 2 года назад

    Note to self: continue at 31:15

  • @youaremymuse6852
    @youaremymuse6852 4 года назад

    1:25:58

  • @Sena-sp6pd
    @Sena-sp6pd 3 года назад +1

    Six Feet Under: Season 2, Episode 6...

  • @youaremymuse6852
    @youaremymuse6852 4 года назад

    38:17

  • @markwaggener5380
    @markwaggener5380 2 года назад

    Mt favorite part of the book occurs very near the beginning, in Chapter 1;
    "I cannot talk to the children about her. The moment I try, there appears on their faces neither
    grief, nor love, nor fear, nor pity, but the most fatal of all non-conductors, embarrassment. They look as if I were committing an indecency. They are longing for me to stop. I felt just the same after my own mother’s death when my father mentioned her. I can’t blame them. It’s the way boys are."
    That's the one place in this book where C.S. Lewis MIGHT have shown a goddamned fucking SHRED of INTELLECTUAL HONESTY and admitted that he was full of shit. The boys, being brutally honest, are flat-out EMBARRASSED.
    Deep down, we all know the same horrific truth. The everlasting cessation of existence. The frailty of our corpulent human flesh, the finitude of human endeavor, the transient, fleeting and evanescent nature of human life, and the howling, dark abyss that awaits all of us on the other side. All C.S. Lewis can do is offer condescending, didactic, patronizing, sanctimonious platitudes and offer to break down crying with us together. As if that solves one fucking thing.
    Words cannot convey how sick with rage C.S. Lewis's books make me.

    • @jimmock1155
      @jimmock1155 2 года назад +1

      Your arrogance is astonishing. May God forgive you.

  • @Leelee-bd8gr
    @Leelee-bd8gr 2 года назад

    C.S lost me when he said "praying for the dead" not sure where he got that from, but completely unbiblical.

    • @jamesmcgrath3841
      @jamesmcgrath3841 2 года назад +1

      Check out II Maccabees 12:39-45. Also II Timothy 1:18. CS Lewis believed in Purgatory even though he was Church of England. Your statement is completely unbiblical.

    • @soniajones1519
      @soniajones1519 Год назад +2

      @@jamesmcgrath3841 II Timothy 1:18 has absolutely nothing to do with purgatory. It is totally unbiblical. The early church never subscribed to this belief. Even Jesus said to one of His followers "leave the dead to the dead" Once you are dead you cannot repent and nobody on earth can repent for you.

    • @jamesmcgrath3841
      @jamesmcgrath3841 Год назад

      @@soniajones1519 To the contrary. 2 Timothy 1:18 refers to Onesiphorus who has died. "May the Lord have mercy on his soul." Is not just a Catholic sentiment for the dead, but is used throughout Christendom. "May he rest in peace" is hardly worth saying if it means... nothing.
      I note you dodge the Maccabees reference. You should be seeking truth. Not argument. Something may not be fully explicit Biblically but that does not make it "un"Biblical.
      "Let the dead bury the dead" is the phrase I think you mean? That says nothing one way or the other on this issue.
      Catholics are not "sola Scripture." This in fact is totally unbiblical. Nowhere, anywhere, does it say in the Bible "sola Scripture." Nowhere, anywhere is it implied.
      In fact, the end of John's Gospel explicitly states that everything Jesus said and did the world itself could not contain all of it. In other words, scripture itself tells us. That scripture is. Incomplete. Unless John is a liar? Good luck with that heretical view.

  • @thebiblepiano1866
    @thebiblepiano1866 5 лет назад +8

    Thank you for reading

  • @RunningTowardSunshine
    @RunningTowardSunshine 3 года назад +6

    59:32 Ch 3

  • @elizabethwilliamstv1558
    @elizabethwilliamstv1558 2 года назад +1

    22:38 chapter 1

  • @youaremymuse6852
    @youaremymuse6852 4 года назад +1

    59:31

  • @alexandria2243
    @alexandria2243 2 года назад

    44:24

  • @matthewjarr2007
    @matthewjarr2007 2 года назад

    38:17