Theme:
The Call From a Foreign Kingdom
C.S. Lewis describes the concept of the Sehnsucht, which comes from the German, and loosely means longing for a better world and country, one that never existed but you can feel ... Lewis uses and expands this concept throughout his Narnia stories. Here he describes it a bit further.--
Prompt:
"...The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them, and what came through them was longing. These things—the beauty, the memory of our own past—are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself they turn into dumb idols, breaking the hearts of their worshipers. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited."
--CS Lewis, The Weight of Glory.
"I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now...Come further up, come further in!"
--CS Lewis, The Last Battle.
