Perelandra

Greetings Dear Reader,

“As long as what you are afraid of is something evil, you may still hope that the good may come to your rescue. But suppose you struggle through to the good and find that it is also dreadful? How if food itself turns out to be the very thing you can’t eat and home the very place you can’t live, and your very comforter the person who makes you uncomfortable. Then, indeed, there is no rescue possible: the last card has been played.”
― C.S. Lewis, Perelandra

This is so central to understanding why we must work at loving each other and being reconciled to each other.  We fear things and allow the good to become evil to us.  Accountability is viewed as control.  Responsibility becomes a demand.  We turn that which is good for us into obligations and burdens. 

Standards are viewed as judgment and narrow-mindedness.  Failure to acknowledge the thought of the day as valid and true is called prejudice, racist, and hatred.  When we express love, we have to accept all of the agenda for it to be validated.  The imperfect demand that we measure up to their standards whilst reviling and demeaning ours.

Too often our pattern is to reject what is good or turn it into bad because it requires us to be better.  It demands that we too rise above the bad and embrace the good.  It requires that we forgive, love, and be kind at any cost.  When we refuse, we turn even the best we are given into ashes.

When we turn good into bad, we quickly run out of places to stand.  Everything becomes tainted and hope runs low.  We cannot fail to love and hope to have hope.  We cannot make that which is good evil and hope to have any remaining refuge.  We will be tempted and tried continuously until we reach home.  If we care for each other we can make it.  If we do not, we may as well sit in the ashes together Dear Reader.

Wishing you joy in the journey,

Aramis Thorn

Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every writer who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a homeowner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure store.”

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