These amazing books by CS Lewis are the tales of another world and a country called Narnia. Kings, Queens, dwarfs, Satyrs, tree gods and goddesses, and a magnificent Lion who is High King over all.
My daughter and I have been reading this a chapter a night since Christmas and are halfway through the books. The amazing lessons in this book are so unforgettable. As a Christian parent, they hit me hard sometimes.
The Lion, Aslan, represents Christ throughtout the book. We've read how Edward becomes a traitor and the strongest magic in the world calls for Edward's death. No one can change the magic of the Emperor-Over-The-Sea. However, one may sacrifice for him. Aslan dies for Edward only to rise again and help the young kings and queens defeat the evil white witch.
Last night, Aslan was calling to Lucy, telling her which way to go. The others didn't believe her. They spent all day going the wrong way as she wept because they didn't listen. She stayed with them though. They ended up in the same place where she saw Aslan and had to go how He'd shown her earlier. He woke her in the night and she realized she could have followed Him alone, even when the others wouldn't. She told Him how frightened she'd be, but she trusted Him. He told her the others wouldn't see Him yet, and that even if they didn't believe her, she still had to follow Him.
I take these times to show my little one the parallel with the scriptures. This is an amazing saga that makes the scripture come to life for her. In A Horse and His Boy, Shasta learns why Aslan, whom he'd never heard of nor had met, was chasing them. He learned how it got them together and gave them the extra willpower to go on when they otherwise would have given up. Aravis learned why Aslan had scratched her back up. She'd done wrong to another and needed to know how it felt to be done the way she did someone else. I highly recommend these stories to parents who want to use them to teach their children morality and/or scripture principles. They also make lovely bedtime reading.
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