Returning from Narnia

To share a revelation that has been brought to my attention this last week, I want to suggest how silly yet empowering it is. If you were like and are acquainted with the Chronicles of Narnia, you know the intense moments that are depicted in these stories from the dead shaven Aslan on the stone tablet to Edmund destroying the icy apparition of the White Witch. In returning back to my home after Focus, I have discovered that I was once a queen in a foreign land fighting wars and mysterious powers now only to exit the wardrobe a child in a restless world. At Focus, my fellow Narnians and I had a community like no other, laugh, loved, and cried with all our hearts and saw ourselves and each other grow into these royal statures. Now I’m home and no one knows or understands Narnia and if you try to tell them it is a mere fairy tale. Also, I am once again the child, the real world is unaware of my acquired strength and wisdom, they just restrain me to the shell of my old self.

To my fellow Narnians:
We have seen this dream world. We have experienced great battles, victories and defeats, in this place that no one outside could understand. As we return to the frontlines of the real world, know that you are not alone. AS a past citizen, I have seen you as a royal power, a king/queen fighting and learning in great strength of the Almighty. As you return home, that king/queen has grown and taken residency within yourself, your character and personality, you are not the child others may see. So I remind you, my fellow Narnians, as you face this real world, know of your redeemed nature and developed wisdom and if that is too hard for now: reach out to your brothers and sisters. We will remind you of the king/queen we saw of you in Narnia. For, even though that was not the real world, what we experienced was the real you. And we will stand locked arm in arm to sustain that image in your mind. You do not fit back into that well-sealed box you left in, but a king/queen in His power. Take heart, for soon the real world will see you as the Narnians have seen you.