The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Reepicheep was my hero in this book. His courage and faith are exemplified in his words as they sailed into the darkness.

"And why not?" he said. "Will someone explain to me why not."

"If I were addressing peasants or slaves," he said, "I might suppose that this suggestion proceeded from cowardice. But I hope it will never be told in Narnia that a company of noble and royal persons in the flower of their age turned tail because they were afraid of the dark.

"But what manner of use would it be ploughing through that blackness?" asked Drinian.

"Use?" replied Reepicheep. "Use, Captain? If by use you mean filling our bellies or our purses, I confess it will be no use at all. So far as I know we did not set sail to look for things useful but to seek honour and adventures. And here is as great an adventure as ever I heard of, and here, if we turn back, no little impeachment of all our honours."

The story, I feel, is to teach us that there is nothing that we cannot overcome. From Eustace, we see a person who changes after a choice encounter with the Divine. We see the emotions that are overcome when Caspian and Edmund fight at the island of Deathwater, and we see how they all work together as they battle the sea serpent and get through the darkness. Lucy herself has to find her own self-worth after looking at the magician's book. They are willing to sail to the ends of the Earth, not knowing what they will find, but relishing in the great adventures ahead.

In the same way, we cannot see what lies ahead in our lives. But, if we have faith and rely on our friends and family, we can always overcome. There might be strange things and dark spots in our lives, but there is always light ahead, especially when we call on and rely on the One who gives all life.