This book is sad?

i cried reading the end. It breaks my heart everytime when Lucy says 'It's not Narnia, u know. It's you!! We shant meet u there. And how can we live, never meeting you?'
 
Edmund_Aslan said:
i cried reading the end. It breaks my heart everytime when Lucy says 'It's not Narnia, u know. It's you!! We shant meet u there. And how can we live, never meeting you?'
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Yeah, but he also says he's in are world too and that he goes by another name (Hint* Jesus).
 
Reep's departure is sad in VDT, but we do see him again; we know he does come to Aslan's country. So his story is not ultimately sad, but rather, triumphant. I like it because, in Mere Christianity, for adults, Lewis says something like: any desire you have on earth which cannot be fulfilled by anything on earth must then be pointing to heaven -- the only place it can be fulfilled. He says on earth we have a desire for food, and there is food here. We have a desire for company, and there are other people here. But what about our desires for another world, a longing to known and be known more intimately than is ever possible on earth, our dreams of flying ... these desires can never be met, so what are they for? They must be met somehow in a life to come, a world we cannot yet see or imagine.

Reep's heart's desire was for the fulfillment of his prophecy: to come to the utter East, and at last, to Aslan's country. It was a desire which could not be fulfilled in Narnia, but in Reepicheep's story, we see how it can be fulfilled, in the world to come. It is quite an encouragement, isn't it, to know that our desires for God's country, can also be fulfilled, if we follow them as single-mindedly as Reep did.

All the time we knew him as a gallant warrior with a stringent code of ethics, his princely behavior was motivated by the one driving force of his life: to come at last to Aslan's country. He's a model for us, if our desire is to come, at last, to God's country.
:)
 
inkspot said:
Reep's departure is sad in VDT, but we do see him again; we know he does come to Aslan's country. So his story is not ultimately sad, but rather, triumphant. I like it because, in Mere Christianity, for adults, Lewis says something like: any desire you have on earth which cannot be fulfilled by anything on earth must then be pointing to heaven -- the only place it can be fulfilled. He says on earth we have a desire for food, and there is food here. We have a desire for company, and there are other people here. But what about our desires for another world, a longing to known and be known more intimately than is ever possible on earth, our dreams of flying ... these desires can never be met, so what are they for? They must be met somehow in a life to come, a world we cannot yet see or imagine.

Reep's heart's desire was for the fulfillment of his prophecy: to come to the utter East, and at last, to Aslan's country. It was a desire which could not be fulfilled in Narnia, but in Reepicheep's story, we see how it can be fulfilled, in the world to come. It is quite an encouragement, isn't it, to know that our desires for God's country, can also be fulfilled, if we follow them as single-mindedly as Reep did.

All the time we knew him as a gallant warrior with a stringent code of ethics, his princely behavior was motivated by the one driving force of his life: to come at last to Aslan's country. He's a model for us, if our desire is to come, at last, to God's country.
:)
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Well at least he's in True Narnia in The Last Battle.
 
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