I saw this on Vitamin Z's blog (see left) today - was posted on Carlos' (http://alreadyandnotyet.blogspot.com/2009/03/cs-lewis-on-real-life-interruptions.html) before that... In light of the last post I wrote, this is a good perspective, so I'm copying and pasting for your reading pleasure. That CS Lewis, such brilliance.
"C.J. Mahaney has been talking about Biblical Productivity over at his blog. In his latest installment he discusses Scheduling the Unexpected. He also shares this convicting quote by C.S. Lewis on how we view these interruptions that are sometimes quite unpleasant.
"The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one’s “own,” or “real” life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one’s real life—the life God is sending one day by day; what one calls one’s “real life” is a phantom of one’s own imagination. This at least is what I see at moments of insight: but it’s hard to remember it all the time." The Quotable Lewis (Wheaton, IL.: Tyndale House Publishers, 1989), 335."
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