A book worm revelation.

"...draw near. Nearer still, my son. Do not dare not to dare. Touch me. Smell me. Here are my paws, here is my tail, these are my whiskers. I am a true beast." I guess you would call it a summer tradition, but for the past few summers I stay up at night in bed right before I go to sleep reading The Chronicles of Narnia by the backlight of my iPod. C.S. Lewis would have to be my favorite author (even though I prefere American novella) and the way he writes these books so simply but with so much meaning is what always has me reading them. And usually, I get something different from them everytime. Well, I just finished The Horse and His Boy for the 458794th time before my nap today. And what I got from it this time is: our "situations" and our problems are different in our eyes than they are in God's. Perhaps it's because we're the ones living it. We only see the situation in which we are in. Cursing it, pitying yourself, or wondering "why?" We can't see the grand scheme of things. See... Aslan (yes, I am fully aware I sound like a nerd) had brought Aravis and Shasta together in the story. He had kept coyotes at bay. He had kept Shasta company. He had wounded Aravis. And had kept Shasta warm. He is the one who pushed the boat in which Shasta had layed in as an infant to drift safely to a shore when he was kidnapped. And while Shasta didn't have a good childhood because he was "raised" by a fisherman in a country much different than his own... Aslan had kept him all his life to get him to the point where he is now. Sometimes, we don't understand the purpose of what we go through. We don't even see how there CAN be a purpose in some problems. But then I think about how much more worse it could be. And unbeknown to us... how many unseen angels there are blocking so many more pains than we know. Some is necessary. We have to learn right? But I think before we take for granted our experiences and lessons... we go to God, we DARE to go to him and get to know him so well as to know why things happen for us and how somethings are kept back. Anyways... I highly reccommend any of these books. You learn.