Oh, Happy Mistake!

Every Thursday night at our campus is "English Movie Night" and Scott and I offered to host it. So far, we've shown the National Treasure movies. They loved them! This past week we wanted to show The Lion King but it doesn't have English subtitles (school requirement) so we had to quickly find another. We randomly scooped up The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe and played it for the students.

Earlier in the week, we were trying to explain Easter to our friends. They didn't understand "resurrection" at all (or Easter egg hunts, for that matter :-).

But when Aslan took Edmunds' punishment for his betrayal and then came back to life, the students erupted into applause, so happy with this triumph. We paused the movie briefly, just to help them catch the likeness between Aslan's sacrifice and resurrection and the Easter holiday.

The weeks leading up to Easter, we racked our brains trying to think of a movie that talked about the Story, but we couldn't think of any. Low and behold, we chose The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe because it was the only movie with English subtitles that we could get last-minute.

I was sitting next to my good friend during the movie, and I relished her reaction to Aslan as he walked to the Stone Table. Tears came to my eyes because I was so happy that all my friends now had a better understanding of sacrifice. She had her face in her hands, so emotional at the sacrifice. She was glued to the screen; Lucy and Susan walked away but turned to look and saw that the stone table had cracked in two. My friend sat straight up in her chair and clapped her hands when she saw that Aslan had come back to life.

I just hope they can wrap their arms around the fact that this is based on a true story where an even greater sacrifice was made for them.

Happy Easter