TO RHONA BODLE, who had written Lewis of her upcoming confirmation:
On not expecting remarkable sensations /connected to holy activities.
9 November 1949
Congratulations. You are daily in my prayers.
Caveat [let her beware!]
—don’t count on [any remarkable sensations], either at this or your first (or fifty first) Communion.
God gives these or not /as He pleases.
Their presence does not prove that things are especially well,
nor their absence that things are wrong.
The intention, the obedience, is what matters.
* caveat ; a warning enjoining one from certain acts or practices
* nor their absence (prove) that things are wrong.
From The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II
Compiled in Yours, Jack
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