Have been reading the The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe for the first time in a long time. Don’t you love the scene where Mr. Beaver, after dinner, tells the children about Aslan? And I was struck that when they keep asking him what they can do about the now stone frozen Mr. Tumnus (the Faun), Mr. Beaver just keeps telling them to go meet with Aslan, for he alone can do anything about it. I think Lewis, in his imaginative way, is encouraging us to pray, that is to take whatever is on our minds and hearts to the only one who can do anything about it, Jesus Christ Himself.
“Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight,
At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more,
When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death,
And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again,”
Mr. Beaver, p. 74-75.
