@thenameofaslan‘s 100 Verse Challenge - 21/100
“Your beginnings will seem humble, so prosperous will your future be.”
~Job 8:7
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Job 8:7 “Your beginnings will seem humble, so prosperous will you future be.”
Shasta/ Cor from Narnia
Watercolour pencil drawing with ink outline.
For @thenameofaslan’s 100 verse challenge
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Maugrim’s Tale (A Summary)
(Confession: I did make Maugrim female in my FanFic)
Romans 13:12 “The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.” (NIV)
Maugrim has been leading the nomadic group of mixlings known as the Wolves since she was 15. However, one mistake gets them into a fight that leaves her best friend Carmen dying. In a desperate attempt to save her Maugrim takes her to the witch Jadis, who agrees to heal her, but demands that in return Maugrim must serve her for the rest of her life. Maugrim agrees, and to make sure the girl does not go back on her promise the witch places a spell on Maugrim and the rest of the wolves that not only gives her the power to kill any of them if Maugrim breaks her oath, but also turns all the Wolves into actual wolves. The Wolves are then forced to help the Witch rise to power and are instrumental in placing her on the throne of Narnia.
After awhile Maugrim tries to end the curse on her friends by dying, however, as part of the curse she cannot die, neither of age nor by the sword. In desperation, she returns to her wizard uncle, who raised her, searching for answers. He delivers this prophesy shortly before his death, “The curse of the wolves shall be broken when the soul of Maugrim is reaped. The blessed blade shall take her and the hunter arise, as winter does finally cease.” She never tells a soul of this prophesy
So Maugrim bides her time, serving the witch. She does horrible and unspeakable things. Then four children appear to fulfill another prophesy. The prophesy that all Narnia knows will end the Witch’s reign and life. Maugrim knows her life too is drawing to a close, and a part of her she thought had died with all those she had murdered, wakes up. She and Carmen do their utmost to protect the sons and daughters of Adam and Eve. Then Maugrim feigns an attack on the two human girls, and the eldest of the four humans reaps her soul, breaking the curse on her friends.
But Maugrim does not die, rather she is cleansed from much of the dark magic that has held her since childhood. Aslan gives her and those of the Wolves who will leave the Witch’s service a second chance.
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TNOA’s 100 Verse Challenge - 92/100
If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land. —2 Chronicles 7:14 (ESV)
“...perhaps she will get to Aslan’s country in the end—in her own way.” —C.S. Lewis, in a letter to a fan
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TNOA’s 100 Verse Challenge - 45/100
“Praise be to the Lord my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.” Psalm 144:1
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TNOA’s 100 Verse Challenge - 81/100
High King Peter the Magnificent
“As Peter entered the house, Cornelius met him and fell at his feet in reverence. But Peter made him get up. ‘Stand up,’ he said, ‘I am only a man myself.’“
Acts 10:25-26
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TNOA’s 100 Verse Challenge - 89/100
Matthew 14:31 “Jesus immediately reached out and grabbed him. ‘You have so little faith,’ Jesus said. ‘Why did you doubt me?’” (NLT)
Everyone in Cair Paravel and Narnia could clearly see it; King Edmund spoke of Aslan with so much reverence and awe that even hearing the name ‘Aslan’ from the king’s lips would instil the same feeling.
Those who were around when Edmund first arrived at that camp so long ago would remember the scared little boy with cuts along his face and fear in his eyes. They’d remember the sorrow when his siblings showed up at camp first and announced to Aslan that their middle brother had run off to the White Witch, and they’d remember the anger and horror when the White Witch waltzed into camp demanding the boy’s blood.
Those brave enough to talk to Edmund about this time in his life would ask “You seem so different from that young boy, what happened?” and Edmund would smile and answer with only “Aslan”.
Not many people understood what he meant when he said that. Then again, not many people had personally been in the lion’s presence, stood in front of him and had his breath warm the coldest parts of your soul. Not many people had spoken to him and heard the deep, earnest tones that came forth from his huge mouth. Not many people had that experience with him.
Edmund could remember clearly the words Aslan had spoken to him on that early Spring morning. He could quote Aslan exactly fifteen years later when he was a boy out of the wardrobe and back in England. “You have so little faith,” the lion had said. “Why did you doubt me?”
If people asked how Edmund had such a strong faith in Aslan, he would say “I didn’t always have such a strong faith in him,” and he wouldn’t talk anymore on the subject.
But Edmund could also remember the words that buried themselves deep into his heart, the words that had set him free from the Witch’s grasp even before she had come back to claim his blood. The words engraved into his mind forever and always…
“You’re forgiven.”
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