who said anything about safe?

Spending my friday afternoon at High Point Coffee, or what I still seem to find myself referring to as “Uptown.” This is a place I tend to frequent-to the point where I usually don’t even have to tell them my complicated nonfat-sugar free-hazelnut-cappuccino order when I get to the front of the line. They already have it ready. There’s something so sweet about familiarity. I think that’s what I love this place.

But today I’m just drinking the dark roast in a mug, doing my quiet time and reading old journals. (For those of you who don’t know, my life is documented in journals dating back to 8 years ago. Reading through them is probably my favorite past time). But flipping through, I keep coming across a C.S. Lewis quote from his most famous, The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. I have copied it down over and over and over, and I just can’t help but share. Hope that you find as much peace in it as I do.

“Is – is he a man?” asked Lucy.

“Aslan a man!” said Mr. Beaver sternly. “Certainly not. I tell you he is the King of the wood and the son of the great Emperor-beyond-the-Sea. Don’t you know who is the King of Beasts? Aslan is a lion – the Lion, the great Lion.”

“Ooh!” said Susan, “I’d thought he was a man. Is he – quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion.”

“That you will, dearie, and no mistake,” said Mrs. Beaver; “if there’s anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they’re either braver than most or else just silly.”

“Then he isn’t safe?” said Lucy.

“Safe?” said Mr. Beaver; “don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King I tell you.”

Happy Weekend.

Always,

Mg