Tasting the World - Robert High

One of my favorite readings that we were assigned in the C.S. Lewis class was the article Myth Became Fact. After C.S. Lewis defends the durability of Christianity compared to abstract and ridiculing thinkers throughout time he begins to break down what Myth is. I especially like it when he starts to tell the difference between tasting an experience and knowning an experience.

How can we explain an experience with being in the middle of that experience? And when we are in the middle of that experience, how can we explain it? For the past couple of years I have been involved with my local church as a youth intern which has been a very big blessing to my life. One of the things that I have discovered in the time that I have been here due to this article is that I rarely taste what I explain to the youth group. It has recently come to my attention that when I begin to find a truth in the Bible or discover wisdom from an older friend that I imediatly put it into a context to how I can share it with another so they can experience it. I rarely put it into context with my own life.

I think that this is where Lewis is going with this article. It isn't always about explaining something to someone, it is showing them the way they can taste it. I think that I can better show the way after I taste it for myself, rather than trying to analyse and explain it without tasting.

I think that there are a lot of other things that people can draw out of this article. I don't want to make it look like this is exactly what Lewis is trying to say. I am just happy that I was able to take this small point out of it for myself.