The Real Story

A friend sent this to me a while back after a conversation we had. Now, months later I'm watching as a another friend dances a slow waltz with Death and with each pass around the ballroom they move just a little faster than the last. This quote gave me comfort this morning. I hope it does to you, too, bloggy friends. May we all know that this life is only the cover and title page. The real story is yet to begin.

"...all of you are - as you used to call it in the Shadow-Lands - dead. The term is over: the

holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning."

And as He spoke He no longer looked to them like a lion; but the things that began to happen after that were so great and beautiful that I cannot write them.

And for us this is the end of all the stories, and we can most truly say that they all lived happily ever after. But for them it was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover & the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter 1 of the Great Story, which no one on earth had read: which goes on forever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.

~ Aslan speaking to the children who didn't realize they were dead in The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis