Thursday, March 5, 2009

Voyage of the Dawn Treader

5:56 PM by Christi Bowman

I am loosening the death grip I had on my time of solitude during my son’s nap. I felt Jesus asking me to be available to His leading during that time. Funny thing, I thought that my death grip on my solitude was because I had Jesus in mind, but it turns out it was for me and I was using Him to ease my conscience.
After I put my son in his room I have started reading aloud to my girls. My oldest loves the Narnia movies, as do I. We have the whole series in book form, which I have read twice already, however we decided to start with book three, Voyage of the Dawn Treader, since the first two books, in movie form, are still so fresh in their minds.
The girls and I came to chapters six and seven, yesterday, in our book, and they are where Aslan makes his first appearance in this story. C.S. Lewis has wonderful insight, as he closes chapter 7, into the affect a meeting with God can have on a person. C.S. Lewis shows a lot of grace as he eloquently states that although a meeting between Jesus and man causes nothing but change it is still a process!

"It would be nice and fairly nearly true to say that 'from that time forth Eustace was a different boy.' To be strictly accurate, he began to be a different boy. He had relapses. There were still many days when he could be very tiresome. But most of those I shall not notice. The cure had begun."

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