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What does it mean?
People experience God as their first and most important love.
In plain terms
God feels like your first love because He is one.
What can you take from it?
Treat your connection to God as your primary relationship.

Where it applies

  • spiritual reflection
  • dealing with loss
  • finding purpose

Putting it to work

  • prioritize spiritual connection
  • remember your roots

Questions to consider

  • Who or what is your first love?
  • How does that shape you?

Another view

It assumes a personal view of God.

More from C. S. Lewis

  1. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

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  2. Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.

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  3. Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.

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