Aslan is Turkish for lion...

...just one bit of trivia we've picked up as we, like so many others all watch our new Narnia DVD's. I've chosen a favorite moment.

In the pop-up trivia, just before this "moment" happens, one of the pop-ups says "one thing about Narnia, you can only get there when you're not looking for it." I'd point out one instance where that was not exactly true, and this is my favorite scene. Yes, the characters find Narnia when they are playing hide and seek, looking for each other in the middle of the night, even while trying to escape punishment...but never when they are specifically going to the wardrobe to "find" this secret world...except this one time. One time Lucy sets out to find Narnia, and she does. Even after others have "checked" to see if Lucy, this littlest one of the four children, has had her imagination steal either her sanity or her honesty...and even though she is all alone in what she "knows," still...when she wakes in the night and has the insatiable desire to go there one more time, she gets out of bed with the intention of finding Narnia. She is in this moment the one exception to the rule of finding Narnia only when not looking, and I know why she found it...as she swung her little feet over the edge of the bed, out from under the covers, she had a choice to make: to cover her little bare feet with her bed slippers or with rubber boots beside them. She chose the boots. Grace gets you to Narnia. So does faith. Fascinating.