I very much prefer it to Facebook and Myspace…they bore me, you can’t really express yourself on there. Or at least I can’t.
I felt sad yesterday evening…I felt as though I had let myself down in not being a stronger person. However today I feel it is best to make the best of a bad situation. I’ll just have to make sure I do exceedingly well in what I am doing and not worry about what I haven’t achieved. Easier said than done.
I’ve been thinking today….about the links between Narnia and Christianity…and Aslan and God. I know some people think the books are based on Plato. I don’t. I love how the depiction of Aslan seems to really have caught the character of God….like He’s not safe, but He is good. Also there’s the bit in the Magician’s Nephew, where Digory is going to the valley and he says about being really hungry and how someone should have arranged their meals. Polly says something like “Wouldn’t he know without being asked?” referring to Aslan knowing of their need of food….and Fledge says something along the lines of “I’ve no doubt he would, but I’ve the idea that he likes to be asked.” I think that’s what the Lord is like. Maybe. Then there’s the whole Turkish Delight and temptation thing…like Edmund was never satisfied he always wanted more. The end of Dawn Treaderis so much more explicit about it in my opinion. At the End of the World, they meet a lamb, who changes into Aslan himself….of course Jesus is commonly referred to as both lion and lamb. And then there’s the whole thing about Lucy being sad that she won’t see Aslan again….and Aslan tells her she will in her world (our world) because he is there also, he just has a different name.
I’m rambling on today. I apologise. I’m tired and my brain feels woolly from trying to cram too much information into it. Ironically I’m just about to go learn about memory. Hip hip hooray.
Quoteage: Alice: If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary-wise; what it is it wouldn’t be, and what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?
I find Alice in Wonderland most strange…but yet very interesting. I might read it again soon.
I still have not gotten around to reading Narnia, as much as I like C.S. Lewis, some day I will have to break down and at least see the movie
Prince Caspian Trailer = EXCITING
I really do share your love of Narnia. Years ago, I used to struggle with God, kind of A LOT. But that’s a whole other story! Anyway, a very wise person told me not to stop reading the bible and to read the lion, the witch and the wardrobe for a while instead. I did, for about a year! All sorts of things started to unfold and make sense…..so it’s all very bound up with my faith and relationship with/to God.
I watched Alice in wonderland when I was very young and very stoned. It was hilarious! I don’t think I’ve watched it since.
(I feel like your resident stalker)
To Scott: You should definitely read the books, you can really see the parallels between Christianity and Aslan/Narnia…from the obvious Sons of Adam and Daughters of Eve references to the not so obvious stuff.
And the film = awesome.
Rosie: Yes, yes it is exciting, I don’t want to wait for it to come out
Elaine: That makes me love Narnia even more! C.S. Lewis is a genius