feb 20th meeting - part ii

prince caspian

- main theme of revival/restoration of faith after backsliding
- like our own modern-day "civilized" world --> no one believes in aslan, magical creatures


"someone is pulling me. oh- oh- oh- stop it!"
"i felt just the same," said edmund in a breathless voice. "as if i were being dragged along. a most frightful pulling- ugh! it's beginning again... look sharp!" shouted edmund. "all catch hands and keep together. this is magic - i can tell by the feeling. quick!"
- susan's horn - it gave the children an insistent tugging/pulling feeling into narnia
- it's like that nagging, calling feeling that God sometimes gives us (often in response to someone else's prayers). it's similar to those times when you're feeling down and someone gives you call out-of-the-blue -- it's God prompting the ppl in your life to help.
- God pulls and calls us to help other ppl, we just need to respond to His urgings



"will the others see you too?" asked lucy.
"certainly not at first," said aslan. "later on, it depends."
"but they won't believe me!" said lucy.
"it doesn't matter," said aslan... "i will wait here. go and wake the others and tell them to follow. if they will not, then you at least must folow me alone."

[later on]
"look!"[edmund] said in great excitement. "look! what's that shadow crawling down in front of us?"
"it's his shadow," said lucy.
"i do believe you're right, lu," said edmund. "i can't think how i didn't see it before. but where is he?"
"with his shadow, of course. can't you see him?"
"well, i almost thought i did - for a moment. it's such a rum light."

in a few minutes they were at the bottom and the roaring of water filled their ears. treading delicately, like a cat, aslan stepped from stone to stone across the stream... this time edmund saw him. "oh, aslan!" he cried, darting forward... "peter, peter," cried edmund. "did you see?"
- the idea of faith --> it's not that they see aslan first and then they believe and follow. it was, the more they followed, the more they saw.
- the idea of obedience --> regardless of what other ppl said/did or how little she understood, lucy still had to obey and follow aslan.


"you are my king. i know the difference between giving advice and taking orders. you've had my advice, and now it's time for orders."
- even though trumpkin did not believe in the horn, he still obeyed caspian because he was loyal and he respected him. loyalty isn't really loyalty if you're just doing what you want.


"there were things he wanted to say to su and me because we're not coming back to narnia... he says we're getting too old."
- this idea about being too old for narnia is rather sad - representing the loss of childlike faith?