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[blurglesmurfklaine]

Yours, Jack (4/5): Goodbye

Fandom/Pairing: Newsies; Jack/Davey Rating: M Tropes/Genre: Meet-Cute, WWII, Letter Writing, 1940s AU Summary: Jack Kelly doesn’t wake up intending to fall in love. But he bumps into David Jacobs, who’s been drafted in the Second World War, on a crowded street. They strike up an unlikely but undeniable connection, and David asks Jack to write him letters while he’s deployed. Out of their frequent letters, something more than friendship unfolds.

A/N: Happy 'Ween everybody! Sorry :)

Dear Jack,

Six days with you was not enough. I think I could fill six lifetimes’ worth of days with you and still not be satisfied. It’s amusing to me that I do not tire of you, as I am typically the kind of man who tires of everyone. Yet, I always find myself wishing for one more day with you.

Please never tire of me. I don’t know how else I’d fill my time in this life, much less six.

Yours, Davey

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[stephendavid]

Prayer and God’s Timelessness

'Don’t bother about the idea that God ‘has known for millions of years exactly what you are about to pray’. That isn’t what it’s like. God is hearing you now, just as simply as a mother hears a child. The difference His timelessness makes is that this now (which slips away from you even as you say the word now) is for Him infinite. If you must think of His timelessness at all, don’t think of Him having looked forward to this moment for millions of years: think that to Him you are always praying this prayer. But there’s really no need to bring it in. You have gone into the Temple (‘one day in Thy court is better than a thousand’ [Psalm 84:10]) and found Him, as always, there. That is all you need to bother about.' -- C.S. Lewis, The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II Copyright © 2004 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd.

[wesleystephen]

In praying for people one dislikes I find it very helpful to remember that one is joining *His* prayer for them.

C.S. Lewis, "Yours, Jack" p. 160

[hazyaugust]

3 June 1953 Thank you so much for your lovely letter and pictures. I realised at once that the coloured one was not a particular scene but a sort of line-up like what you would have at the very end if it was a play instead of stories. The [Voyage of the] DAWN TREADER is not to be the last: There are to be 4 more, 7 in all. Didn’t you notice that Aslan said nothing about Eustace not going back? I thought the best of your pictures was the one of Mr. Tumnus at the bottom of the letter. As to Aslan’s other name, well I want you to guess. Has there never been anyone in this world who (1.) Arrived at the same time as Father Christmas. (2.) Said he was the son of the Great Emperor. (3.) Gave himself up for someone else’s fault to be jeered at and killed by wicked people. (4.) Came to life again. (5.) Is sometimes spoken of as a Lamb (see the end of the Dawn Treader). Don’t you really know His name in this world? Think it over and let me know your answer! Reepicheep in your coloured picture has just the right perky, cheeky expression. I love real mice. There are lots in my rooms in College but I have never set a trap. When I sit up late working they poke their heads out from behind the curtains just as if they were saying, ‘Hi! Time for you to go to bed. We want to come out and play.’

C.S. Lewis, From The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III Compiled in Yours, Jack"

TO HILA NEWMAN, an eleven-year-old girl who had sent Lewis her drawings and a letter of appreciation for the first three Chronicles of Narnia

[zaicreme]

It is afterwards, when the new and bleaker life is beginning to be a routine, that one often feels one has been left rather unaided. I am sure one is not really so. God’s presence is not the same as the feeling of God’s presence and He may be doing most for us when we think He is doing least.

C.S. Lewis

[ocean-blooms-words]

There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

Yours, Jack - C.S. Lewis