by Annette Lyon

In a final scene of The Last Battle, the last of C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, some dwarves sit near Aslan, who provides a “glorious feast” for them. The dwarves, however, firmly believe they’re in a stable. They see and taste only the kinds of things they imagine would be in a stable: hay, water from a donkey’s trough, raw cabbage leaves, a piece of turnip. In the scriptures, we have a glorious feast provided for us. Do we see and taste little more than damp hay and turnips?

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