The Door Into Aslan's Country

At the end of C.S. Lewis' Voyage of the Dawn Treader, (the third book in the Narnia series) Aslan meets the children as a Lamb when they reached the end of the world. As they eat roasted fish they discover there, Lucy asked the Lamb, "Please, Lamb, is this the way to Aslan's country?"

"Not for you," said the Lamb. "For you, the door into Aslan's country is from your own world."

"What!" said Edmund. "Is there a way into Aslan's country from our world, too?"

As the Lamb told them that there is a way into Aslan's country from all the worlds, he changed his appearance into the Lion with whom the children were familar. He reassured them that he would be telling them all the time how to get into his country from our world. Aslan told the children that they had come to Narnia in order to know him there for a little in order that they might know him better in their own country.

This morning my daughter, Sarah, led me into my first experience with centering prayer. This evening I sense that it is one of the ways, a gift that "Aslan" gives us, to know him better in our own country.

Susan Price