Stop Worrying: C. S. Lewis on Faith & Purpose

You are not broken, lost, or failing — you are being transformed. The hollow silence after spiritual awakening is not a sign of abandonment, but a sacred pause where God strips away false fuel: performance, approval, ego-driven ambition. Drawing on C.S. Lewis’s insight that 'we must be hatched or go bad,' the episode reframes the post-revelation emptiness not as crisis, but as divine purification. This stillness is not inactivity, but design — a holy reset where the soul is reoriented from striving to surrender. The fire that once burned for applause has been replaced by a quieter, eternal flame born of presence, not performance. What feels like stagnation is actually deep formation: roots growing beneath the surface, oil forming in the quiet, character being forged in the unseen. This is not a detour from purpose — it is the very path to it. The world may see stillness as laziness, but heaven sees it as intimacy. You are not behind. You are beneath — and that is exactly where God is building something unshakable.