Do you know
the story of The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe?
It begins
with four rather ordinary children, exiled from London during the war and sent
to live in this huge house with an ancient professor for the summer. Lucy, the youngest, discovers a beautiful old
wardrobe in an otherwise empty room during a game of hide and seek….and she is
inexplicably drawn inside. Lucy
discovers she has stepped into a whole other world….a world called Narnia.
In the
course of time, all four children are drawn into Narnia and embark on the
adventure of a lifetime….they find themselves in the midst of an epic struggle
in a land that has long been held under an evil spell, one in which they
themselves must play a key role. Through
intrigue, danger, hope, betrayal, and redemption the children journey….and in
the process they are changed. These four
ordinary children become something for which they were destined but could never
have imagined….kings and queens of Narnia!
At the end
of the tale, the children, now fully grown kings and queens, wise and
experienced in their rule, come upon a place of long ago that seems vaguely
familiar. They stumble back into the
wardrobe from whence they came and tumble out the doors, children again….only
to find that almost no time has passed in our world while decades passed in
Narnia! Yet they are not the same
children who first stepped through the wardrobe. Life is never quite the same for them after
that, and there are more adventures to come.
And this one statement sums it up:
“Once a king or queen in Narnia….always a king or queen in Narnia.”
This is my
story of stepping through the wardrobe.
My Narnia is
a heavenly place in the Catskill mountains of New York….the Mohonk Mountain
House. This is where I attended the
Lamplighter Guild, a week that has changed my life. As I attempt to wrestle words to the screen
to express what happened to me during that week, please remember that words can
only say so much. There are some things
words cannot express. And there is far
too much in my heart to ever tell the full of it! But I seek to proclaim the glory of the Lord
with my life and my words, to the best of my ability, so that others may be
drawn to Him!
This is a
teaser. I know my readers have busy
lives. Even someone like me, who
appreciates many of the engaging, insightful writers out there in Blog Land,
only has so much time to spend reading articles and things online, and I know
that a long post looks laborious to read and makes a person wants to pass it
by. So for now I will leave you with this
introduction, and maybe you’ll want to come back later and read the next
installment, which I will hopefully have written in the next few days!
I hope
you’ll come back soon. To borrow
unashamedly from the best….namely Lamplighter Theatre….”you’re always welcome
here!”
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