Chapters 23-25 Questions

1. "...they must experience change" (Lewis, 136). Check out page 82 (eText link) and give me your thoughts

• I think the quote "they must experience change" means that because we "live in time, and experience reality successively" we are made to adapt to all sorts of change. However, God created humans to not only want to experience change in their lives but to have a love of permanency in certain situations. Screwtape calls this balance of change and permanence Rhythm. I think that as humans we have been made to seek after change, new things, and a sense of variety in life; but at the same time we have been made to want a sense of permanence in our lives, a constant. The example Screwtape uses of the seasons said that each season is different from another but every year they are the same. It encompasses that concept of Rhythm mentioned earlier. I think that everyone has that desire for change and desire for something new and different while at the same time wanting to have a constant in their lives that will always be there. God does not want us to be fully focused on having change in our lives, nor does he want everything in our lives to be the same. Having a balance of both change and permanence is very important. We should be aware that we don't fall too far towards one side of the spectrum.