I like to revisit books a decade or more after reading them.
The books themselves haven’t changed, but I have. The new me sees gems I hadn’t
noticed before. We listened to The Last Battle as we drove home from California
earlier this month. We chose this audio book because it’s read by Patrick
Stewart, who could make a phone book entertaining. The Last Battle was my least
favorite of the Narnia books. It repeats itself – a lot – and there’s just
something unappealing about Narnia coming to an end. I’d never paid much
attention to Emeth, who discovers his life was spent serving a false god. He
meets Aslan, who accepts his good works. C.S. Lewis said, “I think every prayer
sincerely made even to a false god, or to an imperfectly conceived true God, is
accepted by the true God. In the parable of the Sheep and Goats those who are
saved don't seem to know they’ve served Christ.”
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