Anticipation that enables our endurance.

Then Aslan turned to them and said:
“You do not yet look so happy as I mean you to be.”
Lucy said, “We’re 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 leaped 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 used to call it in the Shadowlands—dead. The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.”[1]

An eternal paradise awaits believers.  How can we anticipate that truth in ways that enable us to endure and respond to the realities of this fallen world?

• Rain of Revelation – A placid lake or a raging torrent
• A Planet with no Eyes – Thinking of the unimaginable
• Lethe & Eunoe – Will we have regret in eternity?
• Speculations on Eternity – What will we see that now we miss?

[1] C. S. Lewis, The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia Book 7) (New York:  Collier Books, 1973), 183;
C. S. Lewis, The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia Book 7) (p. 93). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition, location 2106.