Over the weekend my family and some friends went to see Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. I won't bore you with my laundry list of complaints. Suffice it to say I think they could've done a lot better. For me they lost the magic of Narnia that they captured in Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe. Anyway, one of the things I could definately relate to in the film is the longing for home. It isn't that England wasn't home for Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy, but not like Narnia was. Three years ago my family went through an extremely trying time where we didn't have our own place to call home. During that time we were living with my grandparents until we could find another place. A word to the wise - don't sell your home until you have money down on another one. My dad had been laid off and my mom, who had quit her job a few years earlier to homeschool me was the first one to win the job hunt race. So basically we, as a family, were between a rock and a hard place. No home, nowhere to go and regret. It's a wonder we didn't go insane. And the most intense longing for a place to call home again. It was also a reminder to me that this world is not my home. I'm just here for a time in this body of flesh. C.S. Lewis once said, "If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world." So true. Home is one of the basic comforts of life and when that is gone, you struggle to survive. You cling to the hope that one day everything will work out and until then you cling to the thought of Heaven. I'm sure you've already noticed that I've added a couple of new songs to the player. They are both from the Prince Caspian soundtrack and I cried when I first heard them. It didn't help that I was reminiscing about when my Daddy and I were reading through the Narnia series outloud and we cried through the last two or three chapters of "The Last Battle." If you get a chance read the story behind Switchfoot's "This Is Home." Really neat. Well I have held you captive long enough. For those of you wondering, yes my family found a place to live, but no, I'm not Home yet. Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Home
Over the weekend my family and some friends went to see Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. I won't bore you with my laundry list of complaints. Suffice it to say I think they could've done a lot better. For me they lost the magic of Narnia that they captured in Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe. Anyway, one of the things I could definately relate to in the film is the longing for home. It isn't that England wasn't home for Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy, but not like Narnia was. Three years ago my family went through an extremely trying time where we didn't have our own place to call home. During that time we were living with my grandparents until we could find another place. A word to the wise - don't sell your home until you have money down on another one. My dad had been laid off and my mom, who had quit her job a few years earlier to homeschool me was the first one to win the job hunt race. So basically we, as a family, were between a rock and a hard place. No home, nowhere to go and regret. It's a wonder we didn't go insane. And the most intense longing for a place to call home again. It was also a reminder to me that this world is not my home. I'm just here for a time in this body of flesh. C.S. Lewis once said, "If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world." So true. Home is one of the basic comforts of life and when that is gone, you struggle to survive. You cling to the hope that one day everything will work out and until then you cling to the thought of Heaven. I'm sure you've already noticed that I've added a couple of new songs to the player. They are both from the Prince Caspian soundtrack and I cried when I first heard them. It didn't help that I was reminiscing about when my Daddy and I were reading through the Narnia series outloud and we cried through the last two or three chapters of "The Last Battle." If you get a chance read the story behind Switchfoot's "This Is Home." Really neat. Well I have held you captive long enough. For those of you wondering, yes my family found a place to live, but no, I'm not Home yet. 
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