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What does it mean?
Lucy learns that her small acts of obedience matter and can make Aslan visible.
In plain terms
Your small obediences can bring Aslan into view.
What can you take from it?
Obedience to your rule opens the way.

Where it applies

  • prayer
  • moral choices
  • children

Putting it to work

  • act on what you know
  • don't mock faith
  • trust rules

Questions to consider

  • What small act could change things?
  • Who told you to obey?

Another view

It may oversimplify how divine presence works.

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