Friday, April 14, 2006
Perelandra
I suppose that of the many fiction books that I have read, few have influenced me more than C.S. Lewis's Perelandra. The floating islands as a metaphor of submission to the sovereignty of God compels me to title my blog page "Catch the Wave." While I know Coke used that phrase as a slogan several years ago, for me this phrase has an entirely different meaning. Instead of reflecting the public's all-too-eager impulse to do the popular, "cool" thing, to be a part of the big crowd, to feel on the "inside," this phrase reminds me that to live freely, I must catch the wave of God's will and ride that curl to His ultimate destination for me, His presence. My hope for all who know me is for them to know Him and to learn to surf that ocean.
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Welcome to the revolution that is blogging. Love you, see you tomorrow.
It's a bit intimidating. I was really just trying to comment on someone else's blog, and the only way I could was to "join." I will, as you say, develop it more as I have time. Irritatingly enough, after I made my blog so I could post the comment to someone else's blog, the comment didn't post, and I didn't feel like re-creating it.
that hideous strength is my favorite book. every time i read it, i notice a different strain of commentary. perelandra is special in a different way for me.
like so many great books, it got me thinking about language itself, and how God uses language in His Word and how He calls us to use language to worship. lewis seems to so easily capture that as a part of our being created in His image and as a sort of wonderful and magical aspect of our created nature.
Each book in the Space Trilogy has something to offer us. That Hideous Strength touches on ideas such as the nature of evil and the importance of obeying in the little things.
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