I Come Quickly
In the book The Voyage of the Dawn Treader , the fifth of C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia , there is an interesting conversation between Lucy and Aslan. Lucy had just met Aslan in a magician’s house on an island, and she was overjoyed to able to speak for a few moments with him. But soon he told her and the magician that he must leave, and in parting he said to Lucy, “Do not look so sad. We shall meet again soon.” Lucy then asked, “Please Aslan, what do you call soon ?” He responded, “I call all times soon.” Aslan, the figure for Christ, then disappeared. I reminded my son of this conversation from the book (I had just read it to him the night before) when we were on a mountain bike ride yesterday in the heat and he was desperate to know when the trail (which seemed to go on forever) was going to be over. When I told him that we would be done “soon,” he did not like that answer! The words of Aslan, though, remind me of what Alma said to his son Corianton, “All is as one day with God,...