Only Aslan
I recently have begun reading The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis to my younger children. We are in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe , and I was struck by the passage where Peter, Susan, and Lucy discuss with Mr. and Mrs. Beaver what to do when their brother Edmund went missing. They realized that he must have gone to the witch, and Peter was determined to go find him. He said, “All the same, we’ll still have to go and look for him. He is our brother after all, even if he is rather a little beast. And he’s only a kid.” But Mr. Beaver responded, “Go to the Witch’s House? Don’t you see that the only chance of saving either him or yourselves is to keep away from her?” Lucy said in despair, “Oh, can no one help us?” To this Mr. Beaver answered, “Only Aslan. We must go on and meet him. That’s our only chance now.” When they wanted to chase after the prodigal Edmund, Mr. Beaver wisely told them instead to seek out Aslan themselves for help. Aslan is of course a symbol of Christ in t...