In his novel The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis describes two settings: one of a gray town where you are provided with everything you want and another of wide pastures. These settings, in the book, represent Heaven in Hell in a certain sense, depending on the character's perspective from which the places are seen. However, the places the main character visits and the journey he takes can be used to shape the journey of our spiritual path. Similar to how the protagonist begins in a squalid town and then travels through a beautiful but rugged pasture towards the mountains, our lives begin in the darkness of sin, but then travel through the treacherous but worthwhile journey of faith to eternity with God As human beings, we are born in sin; from a Christian point of view, it is a very depressing existence to be of the world and attempt to satiate ourselves with temporary means of pleasure. This is similar to the beginning of The Great Divorce: the main character begins wandering in a gray city, an experience he describes as "always in the rain and always at dusk." The protagonist later discovers that existence in the gray city can be described as "hell", from the point of view of solid people. It's not hard to see why; It's not uncommon to find a person who "argued [with his neighbor] so much that he decided to move out." This argument involves an overall sense of mutual hatred. As we read in 1 John 4:8, “He who does not love has not known God, for God is love.” Additionally, in Romans 3:23, the Scriptures mention, “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” God and hate/sin are mutually exclusive, and therefore the gray city is a Godless existence, similar to a life of sin. Notice how... in the center of the card... the repentant people are those who have sinned and suffered the most: murderers, thieves, prostitutes, etc. In the novel there is also a solid person, a murder in his earthly life, attempting to escort one of the ghosts. But ghosts, as mentioned, make pitiful excuses because they have never had the feeling of a complete brokenness and have never felt the need to completely surrender to Him. Therefore, I feel that Lewis is making an appeal to those who have had a semblance of faith throughout your life; He calls them to have the same passion for Christ that the most worn-out sinners have when they encounter Him for the first time. In the same way that we wouldn't complain about our food options when we realize there are those who can't afford food, Lewis shows us that we shouldn't complain when we follow Him because there are those who have had to go through hell forever . earth to fully appreciate His grace.