a bit player in the drama

All the pleasures of his life had been taken away from him as also had been the love of his life, and yet he was content. He was in that rare state in which his physical disabilities and his emotional distresses no longer affected his happiness or lack of it. He had finally become able to make God the center of his life and to regard himself as merely a bit player in the drama. He was not exactly happy; he had merely come to the conclusion that his happiness was not what he should be seeking at all. In fact it was completely irrelevant, and therefore he was content to be without it.

Douglas Gresham, Jack's Life: the life story of C.S. Lewis, "Home at Last," p. 163