http://www.mormonlife.com/tag/Heaven Mormon Life - Heaven tag http://www.mormonlife.com/story/67567-joy-found-in-stabs-of-divine-homesickness http://www.mormonlife.com/story/67567-joy-found-in-stabs-of-divine-homesickness Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:10:00 -0700 <div> source: deseretnews.com </div> A central theme in C.S. Lewis' autobiographical book "Surprised by Joy" — and the obvious source of its title — is what he terms "Joy." <p> Yet Lewis struggles to convey what he means. "Longing," he calls it, sometimes using the evocative German synonym "Sehnsucht." He describes fleeting instants when, encountering a landscape or phrase or musical passage, he suddenly and unexpectedly "desired with almost sickening intensity something never to be described." </p>