Sunday, April 3, 2022

Day 33: Aslan: A God I can hug.

 


Two weeks left.  I am climbing out of the illness pit.  I have my voice back.  I am getting my strength back.  I am getting my interest in literature back.  I just spend three dollars to download the Complete Works of C.S. Lewis.  I guess it will be a while before I get that read.

My mom admitted that she wasn't that much of a reader.  Dad read National Geographic.  So I guess it makes sense why I didn't pick up reading seriously until my thirties.  Back then it was Frank Peretti.  But I wonder what my journey would have been like if I had read the Chronicles of Narnia when I was younger.  What if I had been introduced to Aslan instead of Jesus.  

Maybe C.S. Lewis created Aslan as a replica of Jesus.  The story fits.  But I think there is something to the story of Aslan and in the character of Aslan that I don't see in the first century Palestinian Jew.  First of all... I already understand that Aslan is fiction.  No one will argue that .  There is no need to debate the authenticity of the story.  But in the story, there is a something greater than a fabricated lion.  There is a picture.  There is a idea.  There is Aslan.  

For me, Aslan is not human and that is his redeeming feature.  He is strength, wisdom, life and love.  In Aslan, I see the Creator beyond that which I can limit in my imagination.  That is the beauty.  I can float with my wonder and not have to be concerned with proving texts.  I can take the story and become wrapped in it.  How precious is that.  

I still don't know if I want a God.  That label still holds baggage for me.  But if I did.  I would like a God I could hug.  


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