It has been a joy over the past couple of weeks to reacquaint myself with the writings of C S Lewis; The Great Divorce, Miracles, and - at the moment - Surprised by Joy.

The following paragraph, from Miracles, describes the Christian hope of physical resurrection and sums up every good thing about Lewis' writing.

These small and perishable bodies we now have were given to us as ponies are given to schoolboys. We must learn to manage: not that we may some day be free of horses altogether but that some day we may ride bare-back, confident and rejoicing, those greater mounts, those winged, shining and world-shaking horses which perhaps even now expect us with impatience, pawing and snorting in the King's stables. Not that gallop would be of any value unless it were a gallop with the King; but how else - since He has retained His own charger - should we accompany Him?