Sunday, January 24

Tidbits: Lemonade

You know, I don't know what's happened to me. I used to be able to easily write a blog almost everyday... I'd come home from school or church or a friend's house and be raring to write. Now, it's rare for me to post more than once a month. This is evident in my other writing, too... I wrote a full-sized novel in a year and a half, and now in the past year I've written barely anything.
What makes it even stranger is that I still want to, but I just can't seem to. I have a million small ideas, and whereas they usually expand to be huge things as I write, they lately have just been staying little things.
But I know what this means.... I'm going to make lemonade. From the lemons life is handing me, that is.
So I'll take a page from Sola Fide's book and make a section: Tidbits. If I feel energetic I'll go back and reorganize everything so their labels make them into groups. Oh, and as an FYI, Sola Fide has her own blog now! I love reading it :) It's called Sukuma Wiki, which means something in Swahili that I can't remember... hehe, oops? Help, Miss Fide?
So, thought of today: The Chronicles of Narnia. You may or may not have realized this, but C.S. Lewis was a prominent Christian writer, and the Chronicles of Narnia, especially the famous The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, are giant metaphors for God and his works. You also have or have not realized that the S in his name stands for Staples (I kid you not!), but that really isn't relevant. I just felt like I should mention it. Back to Narnia: there are so many little things that I could point out but, well, I honestly don't feel like it, sorry. There's a point to all this, though. Aslan the big lion dude, represents God in this (king of all of Narnia, Lord of all Creation) and the Pevensie children are the normal inhabitants of Earth, id est (i.e., which = that is [to say]) you and I. I have in my quote book a line from Prince Caspian, one which I took from the movie and am fairly certain is in the book as well:
Lucy: I knew it was you! But the others didn't believe me.
Aslan: And why did that stop you from coming to me?

That was so perfect in every way, I just had to grab a paper and scribble it down. My brother rolled his eyes at me but hey! that's how I am. Do you realize what I saw?
Lucy has always been the loyal one. She, like most young children, is looking for her Saviour around every corner. She never gives up hope that He will come, and when she is certain that she sees Him, she tells everyone, certain that they will be as excited as she is. But, of course, that's not the way it works. They brush her aside the way so many people do and Lucy, being the good little girl she is, lets it go. However, that's letting go of hope.
Never let go of hope.

~Godspede

1 comment:

  1. Ooooh! TIDbits :D i like my friend i Like (y)
    Kudos jah? and by the by good post. I really like that quote myself. "why did that stop you?" and why should it really you know?

    P.S Sukuma = Push/move Wiki= week.

    push the week :)

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