The season of Advent has us clinging to the promise that “the people walking in darkness will see a great light” (Isa. 9:2). But what if you’ve been in darkness so long that you can’t remember what light is like? What happens when you begin to think that darkness is all there is, that light and hope and joy are just a dream? What about when the world around us only reinforces our doubts about our faith and about the reality of the God of love coming to us in the Christ-child?  C. S. Lewis’ book The Silver Chair in his “Chronicles of Narnia” series has a wonderful allegorical answer.

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