tim and i just finished the last battle yesterday. i loved the second half of the book and wanted to share some of my favorite quotes with all of you.
"listen peter. when aslan said you could never go back to Narnia, he meant the Narnia you were thinking of. but that was not the real Narnia. that had a beginning and an end. it was only a shadow or a copy of the real Narnia, which has always been here and always will be here: just as our own world, England, and all, is only a shadow or copy of something in aslan's real world. you need not mourn over Narnia, lucy. all of the old Narnia that mattered, all the dear creatures, have been drawn into the real Narnia through the Door. and of course it is different; as different as a real thing is from a shadow or as waking life is from a dream."
"it was the unicorn who summed up what everyone was feeling... 'i have come home at last! this is my real country! i belong here. this is the land i have been looking for all my life, though i never knew it till now. the reason why we loved the old Narnia is that it sometimes looked a little like this. come further up, come further in!"
may we together long a little more for our real home today, as we recognize things on this earth aren't quite the way they should be. let us together see glimpses of our real home in people, places and moments. and may we together strive to create community and life that does its best to mirror the great redemption that is most certainly coming.
or as my favorite cheesy christian song says, "people get ready, jesus is coming, soon we will be going home." :)
2 comments:
That was really beautiful, Kristi. I think we tend to really ignore the fact that the physical here on earth reflects something greater that we will some day come to know. I think that if we looked at the world in that sense more often we would appreciate what God created and has given to us a lot more. We are stewards of THIS earth. If we take care of this earth as one of the talents the master gives to his servants how much greater will our reward be when the old world passes away and the new world is come?! Everywhere you look there is just a little bit of heaven represented here on earth. :-)
I love the glimpses of heaven....it demonstrates what we all look for! Glimpses of a better life. Thanks for the reminder that we have a better world to look forward too. This is just the prelude our greatest life yet!
That was beautiful!
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