October 31st is by no means our favorite but a great excuse to let the kids dress up and enjoy their friends. This year Kooper set the tone by wanting to be Prince Caspian and talked the others into choosing a character from the Narnia story. Braxton chose Peter, Sutton chose Aslan, and they chose Lucy for Preslee. Our friend Linda made Preslee's costume and she did such a great job! We took pics and went to Baylor for a big Homecoming carnival. It was so much fun - they had big swings like the fair, a faris wheel, and lots of little games and face painting. Blake, Marci, Anna and Jade met us there and we saw lots of other friends. The kids in the pics with our kids are some of our best friends the Meldrum's. We are in class with them, lead life group together and live on the same street. They are some of our closest friends! They will be moving to Iraq this summer; it's sad when we think this is the last time we will do whatever together. My kids enjoy reading the Narnia short stories and Koop and I are tackling the whole series. When I think of Narnia though, my heart is drawn to the final chapter of the final story The Last Battle which reads,
Then Aslan turned to them and said:"You do not look happy as I mean for you to be." Lucy said, "We were so afraid of being sent away, Aslan. And you have sent us back into our own world so often." "No fear of that," said Aslan. "Have you not guessed?" Their hearts leapt, and a wild hope rose within them. "There was a real railway accident." said Aslan softly. "Your father and mother and all of you are - as you call it in the Shadowlands - dead. The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning." And as He spoke, He no longer looked to them like a lion; but the things that began to happen after that were so great and beautiful that I cannot write them. And for us this is the end of the stories, and we can most truly say that they all lived happily ever after. But for them it was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter one of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.
May we live like we are just passing by and getting to the first chapter is our hearts desire!
Psalm 144 Man is like a breath; his days are like a fleeting shadow.
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