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A meditation on Narnie and Snow, December 14th, 2022.

Introduction.

I will begin with an odd circumstance, one that describes a literary and real world juxtaposition,

and then go on to discuss the kind of thing it does not mean.

After that, if you're good, we will address the import of what it does, in fact, mean.

And this will have particular relevance to those of you who are being tempted to get discouraged

about the number of clowns that are tumbling out of our massive clown car parade.

We said we wanted to go to the circus.

We never said we wanted to live at the circus.

But I veered off the point, which you are generally supposed to avoid in introductions.

I promised a literary juxtaposition to an event in real time, and so we will get to that in a moment.

We know that things are pretty grim right now, but a word is available to encourage those of us

who are in the thick of it.

But nothing is gained by lying to ourselves about how things are.

God is the one who delivers, not the one who helps us whistle vanities in the dark.

We need to face facts first, and after that he shows us the way out.

That has showed that people hard things, that has made us to drink the wine of astonishment.

Psalm 60, verse 3.

The juxtaposition first.

I was driving into town last Saturday to pick up the mail, and I was listening, yet again,

to the line the witch in the wardrobe.

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