“But the things that began to happen after that were so great and beautiful that I cannot write them.”
The above quote is the way C.S. Lewis begins the closing pages of his final book in the Chronicles of Narnia Series, The Last Battle. The Last Battle is my favorite of the Narnia series! Lewis goes on to say – in painting his picture of heaven, “And for us this is 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.”†
I read each book in the Narnia series to my children when they were younger. A couple of years ago, I picked up The Last Battle and read it again. The final two chapters brought me to the brink of joy filled, hope saturated tears each time I read them. I realize how formative Lewis has been in the growth of my picture of heaven.
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