† Remembering Julia Hillebrand: Julia's LifeTowards JesusDecember 15, 1997-December 4, 2010

No one in that boat doubted that they were seeing beyond the end of the world into Aslan’s country. At that moment, with a crunch, the boat ran aground. The water was too shallow now even for it. “This,” said Reepicheep, “is where I go on alone.”

They did not even try to stop him, for everything now felt as if it had been fated or had happened before. They helped him to lower his little coracle. Then he took off his sword (“I shall need it no more,” he said) and flung it far away across the lilied sea. Then he bade them good-bye, trying to be sad for their sakes; but he was quivering with happiness. Hastily he got into
his coracle and took his paddle, and the current caught it and away he went, very black against the lilies. But no lilies grew on the wave; it was a smooth green slope. The coracle wentmore and more quickly, and beautifully it rushed up the wave’s side. For one split second they saw its shape and Reepicheep’s on the very top. Then it vanished, and since that moment no one can truly claim to have seen Reepicheep the Mouse. But my belief is that he came safe to Aslan’s country and is alive there to this day.

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
C. S. Lewis

† Remembering Julia Hillebrand

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