Last Saturday evening I just finished reading what I now
believe to be one of the most astonishingly well written parallels to the
concept of true love that has ever been written. C.S. Lewis’s “Perelandra”
proverbially “Took the words right out of my mouth” when it comes to my
thoughts on what love is. I’ve tried to explain it to many people through
different stories, but this fantastically crafted tale displayed it so well and
in so many relatable forms that it would be hard for anyone to walk away from
this book without a better understanding of God’s true purpose in temptation,
sin, and its converse: Love.
I did my best to try to explain the concept of love in a
previous blog post, but I ended up (accidentally) abusing my own story to cover
up for one of my own misconceptions. After I wrote the original post, I had a
long conversation with my older sister about it and she straightened me out a
bit. I had planned on writing another post to explain the faultiness of my
first example (and did), but even after explaining it, I don’t think I really
did the concept justice.
The truth is, I could spend another couple months typing out
all my thoughts on what true love is, and what God’s intention for it was in
us, but that would be pointless, since all of my thoughts can already be
displayed in a single book, written and explained in far more detail and
clarity than I could even dream to. This book, Perelandra, is simply amazing.
Read it now. C.S. Lewis, I salute you.
“It is like a fruit with a very thick shell… The joy of our
meeting when the we meet again in the great dance is the sweet of it… If we had
listened to (the evil one) we should now be trying to get at that sweet without
biting through the shell…. And so it would not be ‘That sweet’ at all” – C.S.
“Jack” Lewis in Perelandra
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