I love to ride horses, especially "Ed,"
My favorite way is fast.
Bouncing through the fields,
Grasses waving,
Trotting through the creeks,
Walking through the woods
Leaves crunching,
I love to ride.
Feeling like a giant
Up high on a horse I can
See more things in the tall grass.
My horizons are expanded.
When it's windy, dry or warm,
Or in a snow storm
I'd always love to ride but I have to
Put him up now because he needs a rest,
And so do I!

Look before you now.
You are like lost sheep and stray cattle.
For He is your shepherd who watcheth over you.
Look at the leaves on the trees, they are of Him.
He is the "I am."
Follow Him
And He will lead you not astray.
He is the one who soars through the air
And sitteth on the tree branch.
Follow Him
And He will take you to the Promised Land.

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis is a story about four children named Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy and their adventures in the world of Narnia. They have been sent away from their homes in London because of air raids during the war. They were sent to the house of an old professor who lived deep in the country, ten miles from the nearest train station and two miles from the nearest post office. He wasn't married and he lived in a mansion with Mrs. Macready and three servants. While the children were exploring the mansion they stumbled into a spare room and Lucy discovered a magical wardrobe. Once inside the wardrobe, Lucy discovered another world, with animals that talk and a lion who is king and a witch claiming to be queen (which she wasn't). They called this magical world Narnia.

Aslan is like Jesus in the story because he tries to save Edmund's soul from the White Witch. When Aslan was sacrificed on the stone table, he arose from the dead as Jesus did. Aslan was a kind and compassionate leader who lead his creatures to freedom from the spell of the White Witch. Aslan breathed the breath of life into creatures turned to stone by the White Witch. They were born again with his spirit.

Aslan was the savior to all the creatures in the kingdom of Narnia. Just as Satan seeks to draw us in with our lust for things, the White Witch used her powers to feed Edmund's greed with the Turkish Delight. The White Witch was afraid of Aslan and his powers. She would stop at nothing to get rid of Aslan. She would turn her subjects into stone if they mentioned Aslan by name. She created terror and fear in her subjects, so they would have no choice but to follow her. She was pure evil, from her pale skin down to the bone.

Edmund and his greed for food made him go with the White Witch. He betrayed his brother and sisters because of his lust for riches and to be a king. His selfishness almost cost him his life. As a nonbeliever Edmund had no place to go. He thought that he couldn't follow Aslan because of his mistakes in the past, but Aslan forgave him and changed his life.

Lucy tried hard to help others. She was kind, loving, loyal, and honest. She followed and believed in Aslan, as we do Christ. Lucy put her life in Aslan's hands because he was her savior. Lucy did things for Aslan, even when she did not understand why she had to do them. She obeyed Aslan without question because she loved and trusted him and knew he loved and cared for her.

Aslan, the lion, is like Jesus in several ways. Aslan is trusted and is the true leader of Narnia. He wants people to be afraid and to fear him. He was also crucified just like Jesus was. The White Witch is like Satan in many ways. She will try her best to get people to follow her so she can lie and trick people into her traps. She hates Aslan more than anyone just like Satan hates Jesus. Edmund is like unbelievers, because he follows the White Witch, the wrong leader. He does not follow Aslan who is the right leader. Edmund shows how easy it is to follow Satan instead of Jesus. Lucy is like the believer because she follows Aslan the true leader. She shows how much harder and complicated it is to follow Jesus instead of Satan.

C.S. Lewis put a lot of symbolism into his book, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Aslan represents Jesus, the White Witch represents Satan, and Edmund represented the nonbeliever. However, I do not think that Lucy represents the believer.

Edmund is like a nonbeliever because like may nonbelievers (not all of them) he knew deep down that he was wrong, yet he tried to make himself believe he was right. Also, he let his greedy desires blind his judgment.

I think that Aslan is an excellent representation of Jesus, because he gave his life to save Edmund, who represents nonbelievers. Aslan was a loving, merciful, and peaceful leader.

I think the White Witch is like Satan in that she promised to give Edmund everything he wanted, but this lasted only a short time. Ill-gotten gains did not benefit Edmund, and the subject of his own greed took control of him, which is what the White Witch wanted. The White Witch wanted to deceive Edmund, so that he would lure his siblings into the trap and keep the four thrones of Cair Paravel from being filled. The similarity between Satan and the White Witch was that Satan wants to keep us from heaven and the White Witch wanted to keep the thrones of Cair Paravel from being filled because this would end her reign.

In my opinion, Lucy is not a good representation of the believer. It would be easy for a child to believe in what they saw, because children think magically. Lucy had the advantage of her youth. Young children believe everything they are told. If we believed everything we heard it would just be by luck that we would become Christians. Older people become more suspicious. They get used to not hearing the truth all the time and become more cynical according to human nature, though the Bible warns against it. The older one gets, the harder it is to take things at face value. If Peter said that he had been in a different world, Lucy would have believed it even if he were not telling the truth. I think Peter or Susan would have represented believers better than Lucy if they had been there first.

Not everyone should necessarily have the same interpretation of the symbolism in this book. I think God made each of us to see things from a unique angle, but I do not mean that "it's all relative."