Narnia

I’ve been thinking a lot about a place of complete peace.

Peace has been a constant theme in my life over the last two years.  It has been something I had found I lacked and something I continued to strive and pray for.

I always loved stories that were about some magical place. A place of beauty, clarity and peace.
Among those stories that I treasured growing up were the Narnia series.
I wanted to live in Narnia, and would find myself day dreaming about being there.

LeeAnna and I have talked about what we envisioned heaven would be.
She saw the gates with a giant water park behind them, which makes me smile because it is testament to how she views beauty.
My vision was a place like Manitoulin. I give that earthly picture because it is what I know. I see myself walking the sun lit streets, laying amongst trees or on a dock, and feeling so connected that I am experiencing wholeness, clarity and peace overwhelming me. 

There is something to be said about untouched, pure God made beauty.

God placed something in His creation that allows us to be amongst it and feel Him.

I like to escape to this place sometimes.

In moments where I feel too plugged into the world around me and unable to quiet myself, I pretend I am already there. I am lying on a forest floor, it seems bare around, except for the great trunks. It could almost be seen as illuminating and scary to some, but for me I look up to the sun through the tops of these great trunks and can almost feel the Divine lying beside me, meeting me, like He does, with warm acceptance.

It works. You get to a place, I have learned from my early days of C.S. Lewis as well as in my more mature ones, that fairy tales can be for those that are older. What Lewis would define as “fairy tales” allows you to picture a life beyond this one, and maybe one we were even created for. Our “home.” Of course we can’t live in this home yet; it is for the future, but we can get glimpses of it here on earth, and we can strive for the things of that world and for that world to be brought to others.  

I wrote this post about a month or so ago but never posted it, and it was this picture (which I saw tonight) that made me come back to it. It seems too suitable to ever pass it up now.

Your Narnia may be completely different from my own, but sometimes radical things need to happen within you and you need to escape to keep you from distraction, even if it is just for a moment. 

Fairly self explanatory. Just shows Lewis's belief in "fairy tales."