Thursday, June 18, 2009

5minutes

Heaven is a good reason to get through an 800 page book.
C.S. Lewis' words at the end of the Chronicles of Narnia are, what I believe to be, the closest taste-in-your-mouth description of heaven for both adult and child out there.
In fact it was the description of heaven that inspired me to read Chronicles in the first place.
I was at a funeral for a friend of a friend who was my age, and someone got up and read the last paragraph to what was an enraptured audience and probably the biggest collection of people that have ever been jealous of the guy in the coffin.

But I'm not here to talk about death.
With this blog I want to impart a moment of worship.
This song from the new United album is awe inspiring, comforting and beautiful and it makes me think of those last few sentences of Lewis' writing so think of this as you watch the video.
And if you're by yourself feel free to engage in extravagant worship :)

"'The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.' And as He spoke, He no longer looked to them like a lion; but the things that began to happen after that were to great and beautiful that I cannot write them. 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 is 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 forever: in which every chapter is better than the one before."


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