For the love of fairy-tales

I have one friend who constantly asks me to write more blogs, and usually, I ignore her because I'm the slackest person around when it comes to consistency in regards to blogging. But today I thought I may as well write some pointless words, for no one in particular (except my number one fan, Ashleigh) because I need to procrastinate somehow.

So, let's write about Narnia. One of the best fairy-tales in all the world. Grab a big cup of tea, and go find a comfortable corner to curl up and read the entire series. No need to read my blog if you can just go read the books instead.

To start I'm going to share my favourite part from Prince Caspian, while it isn't my favourite book in the series I have a soft spot for the few paragraphs I'm going to write for you all to enjoy.

"Lucy woke out of the deepest sleep you can imagine, with the feeling that the voice she liked best in the world had been calling her name. She thought at first it was her father's voice, but that did not seem quite right. Then she thought it was Peter's voice, but that did not seem to fit either. She did not want to get up; not because she was still tired - on the contrary she was wonderfully rested and all the aches had gone from her bones - but because she felt so extremely happy and comfortable. She was looking straight up at the Narnian moon, which is larger than ours, and at the starry sky...

'Lucy,' came the call again, neither her father's voice nor Peter's. She sat up, trembling with excitement but not fear."
*Here are some paragraphs describing how the forest had come back to life after years of being in a deep sleep and Lucy dancing with the almost awake trees in the moonlight*
*Lucy finds Aslan and it's a beautiful time, read the book for all the deets (I don't have all day..)*

"'You mean,' said Lucy rather faintly, 'that it would have turned out all right - somehow? But how? Please Aslan! Am I not to know?'
'To know what would have happened, child?' said Aslan. 'No. Nobody is ever told that.' 

'Oh dear,' said Lucy.
'But anyone can find out what will happen,' said Aslan. 'If you go back to the others now, and wake them up; and tell them you have seen me again; and that you must all get up at once and follow me - what will happen? There is only one way of finding out.'
'Do you mean that is what you want me to do?' gasped Lucy.
'Yes, little one,' said Aslan.
'Will the others see you too?' asked Lucy.
'Certainly not at first,' said Aslan, 'later on, it depends.'
'But they won't believe me!' said Lucy.
'It doesn't matter,' said Aslan.
'Oh dear, oh dear,' said Lucy. 'And I was so pleased at finding you again. And I thought you'd let me stay. And I thought you'd come roaring in and frighten all the enemies away - like last time. And now everything is going to be horrid.'
'It is hard for you, little one,' said Aslan. 'But things never happen the same way twice. It has been hard for us all in Narnia before now.'
Lucy buried her head in his mane to hide from his face. But there must have been magic in his mane. she could feel lion-strength going into her. Quite suddenly she sat up.
'I'm sorry, Aslan,' she said. 'I'm ready now.'
'Now you are a lioness,' said Aslan. 'And now all Narnia will be renewed. But come. We have no time to lose.' 

I'm not entirely sure why this chapter stood out to me so much the last time I read the books, but it did. If you read the whole chapter (chapter 10, the return of the Lion) it goes through so many beautiful illustrations of how Aslan called to Lucy and she failed him the first few times and things got harder for everyone, and then suddenly she wakes and is drawn to him so relentlessly that she can't ignore it and she gets up and all the forest is coming to life again and Aslan is really there. I think Lewis just does an exceptional job here showing how God calls us unto Himself through how Aslan called to Lucy, and even though she failed and couldn't quite do it on her own, in the end Aslan brought her to himself and she was thrilled. It's how we are called to God, completely underserving, unaware and more often than not we fail on our way towards Him, or like Lucy, we go the completely wrong direction, and we don't understand how we still end up in the arms of our Saviour, but we are beyond thankful. Then, like Lucy, we are asked to do something that seems impossible and no one will believe us and it will be hard and we want to hide. But as Lewis describes, we hide in Aslan's mane and there is magic. We hide in God when we are afraid, and when we draw closer to Him he strengthens us like Aslan gave Lucy strength. "'Now you are a lioness,' said Aslan." Is my favourite quote from all the Narnia books, it's a promise to Lucy that Aslan will be with her, no matter what and also just sums up that when we are drawn to God, we are made complete in Him. It just gives me all the happy feelings and is just so simply put for something that is beyond simplicity and is pure magic. I just love Narnia, and if I ever have a daughter I will definitely be considering calling her Lucy. Even though it sounds a lot like Lecy. Anyway. That's it for my ramble today, you're welcome most of it wasn't even written by me. 
There's a ramble from my inner child, who loves all the old books from her childhood and will never really grow up.

“One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again.” -C. S. Lewis