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On the holy spirit

It is quite right that you should feel that “something terrific” has 
happened to you (It has) and be “all glowy.” Accept these sensations with 
thankfulness
as birthday cards from God, but remember that they are only greetings, not 
the real gift. I mean, it is not the sensations that are the real thing. The
real thing is the gift of the Holy Spirit which can’t usually be—perhaps not 
ever—experienced as a sensation or emotion. The sensations are merely the
response of your nervous system. Don’t depend on them. Otherwise when they 
go and you are once more emotionally flat (as you certainly will be quite 
soon),
you might think that the real thing had gone too. But it won’t. It will be 
there when you can’t feel it. May even be most operative when you can feel 
it
least.

From
The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III
Compiled in
Words to Live By

The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis, Volume III: Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy 
1950-1963. Copyright © 2007 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved.
Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers. Words to Live By: A Guide 
for the Merely Christian. Copyright © 2007 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All 
rights
reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

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