Gina Emerson
PERELANDRA ~ EXPERIENCING YOU CAN WALK ALONE
Life can be challenging and often times leaves us with such an extreme feeling of emptiness that we need the strength from others to pull through. What is so genius in not only Lewis’s ability to make a person look beyond their own imagination and see the truth, is his ability to make people see their true potential as an individual.
Perelandra was written at a time when women had a specific role in life to play. They were the ‘happy housewife’s’ with their importance focused more towards cleaning, preparing meals and tending to their children. Although these tasks were not at all simple, women were placed in this category of the weaker sex and often times held the belief that without their spouse they would truly be lost.
What I find so truly amazing about this book is a few sentences reflecting a green lady’s realization that she has the ability to walk alone and there is no one who carries her because they are not needed.
“I thought that I was carried in the will of Him I love, but now I see that I walk with it…It is a delight with terror in it! One’s own self to be walking from one good to another, walking beside Him as Himself may walk, not even holding hands!” Perelandra, page 60
I have met many people in my life that truly do not know what to do without a spouse or mate. What a sad existence to live your life with your happiness based solely on being with someone else and not realizing your own potential.
“The world is so much larger than I thought. I thought we went along paths ––– but it seems there are no paths. The going itself is the path.” Perelandra, page 60
Until a person realizes their own path, they cannot rely on others to lead them to it.
Life can be challenging and often times leaves us with such an extreme feeling of emptiness that we need the strength from others to pull through. What is so genius in not only Lewis’s ability to make a person look beyond their own imagination and see the truth, is his ability to make people see their true potential as an individual.
Perelandra was written at a time when women had a specific role in life to play. They were the ‘happy housewife’s’ with their importance focused more towards cleaning, preparing meals and tending to their children. Although these tasks were not at all simple, women were placed in this category of the weaker sex and often times held the belief that without their spouse they would truly be lost.
What I find so truly amazing about this book is a few sentences reflecting a green lady’s realization that she has the ability to walk alone and there is no one who carries her because they are not needed.
“I thought that I was carried in the will of Him I love, but now I see that I walk with it…It is a delight with terror in it! One’s own self to be walking from one good to another, walking beside Him as Himself may walk, not even holding hands!” Perelandra, page 60
I have met many people in my life that truly do not know what to do without a spouse or mate. What a sad existence to live your life with your happiness based solely on being with someone else and not realizing your own potential.
“The world is so much larger than I thought. I thought we went along paths ––– but it seems there are no paths. The going itself is the path.” Perelandra, page 60
Until a person realizes their own path, they cannot rely on others to lead them to it.
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