He tells Wormwood to encourage the human’s mind to run. Nevertheless, there is much to learn from the senior devil, and the lessons can be applied to our present situation.įor example, Screwtape has suggestions for what we might think about when we’re lying awake in bed at night. Screwtape said nothing about the coronavirus in his advice to his nephew Wormwood, a junior devil tasked with temping one particular human in the World War II era. Of course the author of The Screwtape Letters (which fell into Lewis’s hands sometime during the relentless Nazi bombing of London in 1940–1941), does not speak to our situation specifically. A lot of people are looking for practical counsel at the present, and one excellent resource is a series of letters “written by Screwtape” and published by C. Think about how you would bear it if you were sick from the coronavirus, or if COVID-19 struck someone you loved. Picture each awful possibility as you lie awake at 3 a.m., letting image after image flood your mind. What you should do is imagine all the bad things that could happen.
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