At about 12:45am this morning I finished The Great Divorce. In the post that I wrote yesterday, I talked a little bit about the lessons that I was learning from the book. Today, I thought that I’d finish up the quick review of what I’ve gotten from the book. Spoiler alert! This post is very likely to contain specifics from the latter parts of the book and if you plan on reading it, please keep in mind that my plan isn’t to ruin the book for you, but the best laid plans of mice and men often go astray.

  • When we accept Christ, all of earth, in a sense, becomes as Heaven, but if we reject Christ, all of earth becomes as Hell. That is to say that the Christian should understand that all things, even bad, are designed to mold us into the person that God wants us to be.
  • Everything has to be killed before it can be raised to Spiritual Life
    • If we want to see our relationships grow into spiritual ones, for instance, we must be willing to sacrafice that relationship and place God above it. Even if that person is our spouse.
  • “Sown in weakness but raised in power”
  • In the Spiritual World the most honored people will be the most humbled on earth.
  • Although the main character felt like he was in Heaven, he was actually only seeing the Spiritual Reality behind every decision that people made during their lives on earth. If we could see all of our decisions from this eternal viewpoint, how different would they be?