🌿 Transformation Tuesday: When the Mind Meets Mystery — C.S. Lewis’s First Encounter with God
C.S. Lewis didn’t stumble into faith; he reasoned his way toward it — and then something deeper happened. He began as a convinced atheist, shaped by war and loss, skeptical of anything unseen. But over time, his intellect led him to a crossroads. He realized that his longing for meaning — what he called Joy — pointed to something beyond himself. Logic opened the door; experience walked him through it. Lewis described his conversion not as a sudden revelation but as a surrender: “I gave in, and admitted that God was God.” That moment wasn’t triumph — it was transformation. He moved from resistance to recognition, from argument to awe. And in that shift, his life’s direction changed — his writing, his friendships, his sense of purpose. Transformation often begins where certainty ends. For Lewis, it wasn’t emotion that led him to God, but the realization that reason itself pointed toward the divine. It’s a reminder that faith can begin not in belief, but in the honest search for tr...