What is the meaning of the bowl of soup analogy in "A Grief Observed" by C.S. Lewis?

In *A Grief Observed* ([pdf here](https://www.samizdat.qc.ca/arts/lit/PDFs/GriefObserved_CSL.pdf)) , Lewis makes reference to God as a clown (page 7): > And this separation, I suppose, waits for all. I have been thinking of H. and myself as peculiarly unfortunate in being torn apart. But presumably all lovers are. She once said to me, ‘Even if we both died at exactly the same moment, as we lie here side by side, it would be just as much a separation as the one you’re so afraid of.’ Of course she didn’t *know*, any more than *I* do. But she was near death; near enough to make a good shot. She used to quote ‘lone into the Alone.’ She said it felt like that. And how immensely improbable that it should be otherwise! Time and space and body were the very things that brought us together; the telephone wires by which we communicated. Cut one off, or cut both off simultaneously. Either way, mustn’t the conversation stop? > > Unless you assume that some other means of communication — utterly different, yet doing the same work, would be immediately substituted. But then, what conceivable point could there be in severing the old ones? Is God a clown who whips away your bowl of soup one moment in order, next moment, to replace it with another bowl of the same soup? Even nature isn't such a clown as that. She never plays exactly the same tune twice. C. S. Lewis describes the loss of his wife in terms of their communication being severed upon her death before he expresses his frustration with God and his apparent arbitrariness in his dealings with mankind. Lewis assumes another type of communication other than time, space, and physicality (body) which brought he and Joy together but what could he (Lewis) have been possibly thinking regarding another type of connection? The soup analogy throws me a bit in attempting to follow his reasoning here. Could someone unravel his logic for me?