In my role as "Mother Christmas"
I have just finished participating in our university's production of C.S. Lewis's "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," and thought I'd give you a peek behind the scenes.
The story is one of the battle between good and evil in this universe, one in which children are loved by the King, and have a prophetic role to fulfill. The story is populated by woodland and mythical animals both good and evil, and the struggle is not just one between the White Witch and the lion Aslan, but also an internal part on the part of the four Pevensie children as they struggle to keep together in the fight to regain the rulership of Good.
Edmund, Lucy, Susan and Peter (as they are pictured above) have been predicted to come to Narnia someday in connection with the return and victory of Aslan over the cold-hearted White Witch.
I think I expected our Aslan to be huge and big and wide, and then I stopped and remembered that our "Aslan" in this world is not about bigness, power or deep voice, but about Goodness and untamed Love. Which was the whole point in C.S. Lewis's story.
Our White Witch was all about power, volume, beauty, evil, greed and destruction. Interesting how that rings true with our world's popular culture and political situation today.
Lucy, of course, represents Everyman. Or Everygirl, as the case may be. She is young and curious, open with her thoughts and expressions and loves. She flings herself at whomever she loves, living life wholeheartedly. She is you and me in a world that is not well understood, trying to find a friendly face, meaning, and her way back home.
[to be continued]
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