A Grief Observed: Chapters 3-4

The rest of the book is a continuation of the first two chapters though they do take a few different turns and talk about different themes.  One analogy I like in these readings were the concept of the house of cards.  "Your bid will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it."This is talking about how with one blow his whole world, if based on the house of cards can come crashing.  It makes one stop to think, is it really worth rebuilding when, in reality, it could be knocked down in the same way again. 
Another thing I take away from this reading is the way he justifies his questioning of God and whether he is so called "good."  I like the quote where he describes the anguish and pain that he expresses towards God as merely the "pleasure of hitting back." 
Probably my favorite part of the piece is when he starts talking about the pain from not his perspective but hers.  This is something I honestly had not thought about in great detail ever.  The fact that she could still be in pain at the moment and there was no immediate departure to what we would think of as paradise or heaven.  Then he talks about how much greater his pain would increase if he was to have his wishes of her returning to life fulfilled.  The process of dying twice would be unthinkable and how he makes the point of not knowing if she is better of here, as almost it is a selfish inquiry of him. 
Lastly I think Lewis finds a bit of closure in the matter of her death when he talks about the reason for her death stating that God had taken H away because their relationship had reached its "proper perfection." 

I went to the Lakeview, Roselawn and Tiger Flowers cemetery complex for this fieldtrip, and I stayed there for at least 40 minutes.