Pain is terrible, but surely you need not have fear as well.

Can you not see death as a friend and deliverer?

What is there to be afraid of?

Your sins are confessed and absolved.

Has the world been so kind to you that you should leave it with regret?

There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

This is Pints for Jack Season 7, Episode 7. Yours, Jack. Letters to an American lady, part

four.

Dear Pints for Jack listeners, thank you for downloading this episode of Pints for Jack,

the podcast where we discuss the work of C.S. Lewis. This season, we're reading some of

Lewis's letters, which have been brought together in several different collections. In season

seven, we'll read his correspondence with Mary Willis Shelburne, found in letters to an American lady, as well as his letters to children, and his exchange of Latin letters with St Giovanni Calabria.

Today is our last episode going through Letters to an American Lady.

We'll be covering the final period of Lewis's correspondence with Mary from 1961 to 1963, an exchange which came to a

conclusion at Lewis's death. All blessings, Andrew, David, and Matt. Ready to wrap things up

today, gentlemen? Well, not as ready as I was half an hour ago. I pour a drink, though.

What's that quote, Lord?

You have the serenity quote, but it's a funny playoff.

Give me caffeine to change the things I can change and alcohol to accept the things I can't.

Listeners, we spent 35 minutes getting the audio equipment, figured out Satan does not want

this recording to happen.

But we're here.

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