As we work and achieve, we accumulate influence, titles, assets, and money. As they say, we build a life. Our life comprises our reputation, our job, our house, our car, and our relationships. Looking at the results of our effort – to what we’ve committed so much sweat and blood – is an immensely rewarding experience. As Margaret Atwood writes in her poem, The Moment: “The moment when, after many yearsof hard work and a long voyageyou stand in...

Letter 19 Themes: God’s love, competition, being in love, marriage, exploitation of anything for sinister purposes. Screwtape-Letters_-19Download Letter 20 Themes: Attacks on chastity; unequally yoked marriages; sexual “tastes” of males and females; idealism. Screwtape-Letters_-20Download Letter 21 Themes: Irritability (peevishness); sense of entitlement; value of time; ownership verses stewardship....