SUSAN of NARNIA

Chapter 12: Queen Susan the Gentle

"My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away." -Song of Solomon 2:10

Susan soon returned to the Kirke estate, where after a short time Mr. Lewis asked her to start taking in young girls who had lost their families in the War. In the years that followed Susan took in 12 different young ladies during which time she eventually married Neil Lewis, one of the young lawyers who had been adopted and raised by Mr. Lewis.
Together Neil and Susan had three children who they named Lucy, David and Tom. Neil started a mission society which he led until his health finally broke down. Lucy became a famous violinist, David became a lawyer and Tom became a doctor. David and Tom eventually met some lovely young ladies who they married and had families of their own. Lucy remained with her parents and took care of them. Neil proceeded Susan in death, but only by one year.
During her lifetime Susan told her daughter Lucy about her adventures in Narnia, but she never told anyone else. What she did tell everyone about was her LORD and Savior Jesus Christ, leading no less than 34 people to Jesus herself and influencing hundreds more. She was known by all as Susan the Gentle.

On the day that Susan left the world she was sitting alone in her chair by a window in the upper room, while the last light of a golden sunset was streaming into her room. Her face was now lined with many aged wrinkles, but they were smiling wrinkles, and the twinkle hadn't left her eyes.
Susan had just taken off her spectacles and was laying her Bible on her little table. She had just finished reading Matthew 25 where Jesus said, "...Well done, thou good and faithful servant ..." Susan knew the rest of the story, she sighed deeply.
Just then Susan noticed someone sitting in the chair across from her. He was a young strongly built man with long hair, and he was smiling and watching her, but his eyes ... his eyes were golden-brown.

"Would you like to walk on water with Me now Susan", he asked
"Yes", smiled Susan, and with that smile the age fell away from her face and she arose from her chair to take his strong nail scarred hands.
"I have come to bring you home", He said, and with that the two went down the stairs and out the door into the light of the sun, which was now rising instead of setting, but was nothing in compared to the brilliance of the LORD and Savior. In no time at all they had passed out of England, across the sea of glass and stood in the presence of everyone who had come before and there was more rejoicing that day than there had been when all the others had come, because Queen Susan, who had been lost had been found and now was safely home in the kingdom of her Savior with her family.

And now He turns to you and says, "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand."

"And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely."
"The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen."
-Revelation 22: 17 & 21