Repost: Susan Got What Was Coming To Her

Repost: Susan Got What Was Coming To Her

"The evil attempting to ensorcel Susan is not dramatic. She doesn't murder babies (not even in the womb). She doesn't starve or whip innocent children. She's just an ordinary young woman, interested in ordinary things, like lipstick and nylons. So, obviously, missing out on Narnia? Maybe going to Hell? This is totally unfair, right?

"But what if it is not?

"St. John Bosco, a Catholic saint, once had a vision of Hell. To his horror, he saw young men he had taught burning there, boys whom he thought of as good and hard-working. One of the causes for this suffering, he was told, was idleness...they had drifted gently away from God, stopped praying, and fallen into gossip and laziness, and this spiritual laziness slowly wafted them away from Heaven.

"He found that being polite, respectful, and avoiding big sins was not enough...if they rejected grace, hid sin, or did not give their heart entirely to God....

"If you had gone to Narnia and you had been granted a gift that billions of people would have given their lives for--to walk with Aslan and see him in the flesh--and you let yourself be seduced by worldly things and forgot Aslan...

"If you turned away from good, in its papable leonine form, to scramble after evil, in its mundane, boring, just drifting away from good form...

...wouldn't you deserve what's coming to you?"