DID THE FLASH GO OFF?
Much like faith in a light switch doing its job, hoping to capture an image and wondering "Did the flash go off?" barely takes a moment, but it can give the illumination necessary to preserve an image for a lifetime.
It's a question I heard often at family gatherings - and one I continue to ask regarding my own flashes of brilliance: some underexposed, out of focus or perhaps not that bright after all. But every once in awhile . . . something clicks!
We must picture Hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned
about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance,
and where everyone lives the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance,
and resentment.
C. S. Lewis - 1960 (preface to The Screwtape Letters)
