a longer intro
Hi LadyLucy,
I like your handle. Lucy is my favorite character too. And as for longer introductions, as a newbie here is mine even tho it is on the long side:
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I first found out about NarniaFans as a website at LionCon. Previously I was not a member in any fan site, although I have loved Narnia ever since I was a 4th grader, when my teacher would read the Chronicles to my class after lunch recess. My best friend and I often would stay in from recess and draw and make cut-outs of our favorite characters and scenes from the series; she specialized in the animals and beasts, while I drew the anthropomorphic characters. My piano teacher and her daughter also shared a love of Aslan, and we spent many joyful hours discussing the books.
After school one day (as a ten-year-old), I remember having a deep conversation with my teacher about spiritual parallels between The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe and Christ and his sacrifice. Much later, as a newlywed, my husband and I shared a common love of C.S. Lewis and his writings; he introduced me to The Great Divorce and Mere Christianity while I encouraged him in reading the Chronicles.
I have also had the privilege of "opening the wardrobe" for a cabin of elementary girls at a church family camp where I was serving as a counselor and my husband was on staff. The reward for getting ready for bed quickly after evening devotions was hearing another couple of chapters of LWW by flashlight. As you can imagine, my campers were exemplary as far as curfew that week!
It is my joy now to see my own children reading the chronicles for themselves, and listening to dramatized versions of the stories as we travel in our car on trips. It was a special pleasure that when I told them about LionCon they both enthusiastically insisted we should attend. One of my highlights of the Narnia conference was hearing them participate in a reader's theater there, my son reading Peter, and my daughter reading Aslan. It was like coming home.
Blessings,
Benisse
Hi LadyLucy,
I like your handle. Lucy is my favorite character too. And as for longer introductions, as a newbie here is mine even tho it is on the long side:
vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
I first found out about NarniaFans as a website at LionCon. Previously I was not a member in any fan site, although I have loved Narnia ever since I was a 4th grader, when my teacher would read the Chronicles to my class after lunch recess. My best friend and I often would stay in from recess and draw and make cut-outs of our favorite characters and scenes from the series; she specialized in the animals and beasts, while I drew the anthropomorphic characters. My piano teacher and her daughter also shared a love of Aslan, and we spent many joyful hours discussing the books.
After school one day (as a ten-year-old), I remember having a deep conversation with my teacher about spiritual parallels between The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe and Christ and his sacrifice. Much later, as a newlywed, my husband and I shared a common love of C.S. Lewis and his writings; he introduced me to The Great Divorce and Mere Christianity while I encouraged him in reading the Chronicles.
I have also had the privilege of "opening the wardrobe" for a cabin of elementary girls at a church family camp where I was serving as a counselor and my husband was on staff. The reward for getting ready for bed quickly after evening devotions was hearing another couple of chapters of LWW by flashlight. As you can imagine, my campers were exemplary as far as curfew that week!
It is my joy now to see my own children reading the chronicles for themselves, and listening to dramatized versions of the stories as we travel in our car on trips. It was a special pleasure that when I told them about LionCon they both enthusiastically insisted we should attend. One of my highlights of the Narnia conference was hearing them participate in a reader's theater there, my son reading Peter, and my daughter reading Aslan. It was like coming home.
Blessings,
Benisse
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