I am sitting in Glasgow airport at the end of a month long vacation with my beloved wife and children. It has been a wonderful time. I count it very precious that I have gotten to spend such a quantity of time with my two grown children and my daughter-in-law. As I sit here, I am thankful, but more than a little bit sad that it is coming to an end.
As I reflect on the temporary nature of this life and our longing for an unending joy, I am reminded of the end of the last book in C. S. Lewis' Narnia Chronicles and its reference to heaven.
“And as He spoke, He no longer looked to them like a lion; but the things that began to happen after that were so great and beautiful that I cannot write them. And for us this the end of all the stories, and we can most truly say that they all lived happily ever after. But for them it was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle
As I reflect on the temporary nature of this life and our longing for an unending joy, I am reminded of the end of the last book in C. S. Lewis' Narnia Chronicles and its reference to heaven.
“And as He spoke, He no longer looked to them like a lion; but the things that began to happen after that were so great and beautiful that I cannot write them. And for us this the end of all the stories, and we can most truly say that they all lived happily ever after. But for them it was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle
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