adversity Psalm 13:1–2; John 1:14 Questions A confirmed bachelor, C. S. Lewis married late in life only to find love doomed when his wife was stricken with cancer. He plummeted into despair following her death, raging against the God about whom he had so coolly and confidently written when not personally afflicted. His little volume A Grief Observed is a testament to his agonizing endeavor to find meaning in the incomprehensible. He said that he would listen to anyone who spoke of the truth of religion.