“And the world itself - can I have been unhappy, living in Paradise? What keen, tingling sunlight there was! The mere smells were enough to make a man tipsy - cut grass, dew-dabbled mosses, sweet pea, autumn woods, wood burning, peat, salt water. The sense ached. I was sick with desire; that sickness better than health.”
There is a passage in the book of Job that reads, “He will yet fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy.”
After all the suffering that Job went through, he was reminded that there would be a time coming soon when God would fill him with laughter and joy again. Our world is broken and in a state of perpetual suffering, but God promises that one day we will be full with laughter and joy. He also says that this will happen again. If it’s happening again, it’s alluding to the fact that it used to be that way. Things were wonderful before they were broken. I don’t think we will see what Lewis describes as Paradise while we are here, but one day we will instead be sick with the desire for joy.
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