Good, but not tame.

This afternoon I finally finished The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (I can't believe I never read the Narnia books as a child, but I didn't). As always, C.S. Lewis is full of grown-up wisdom:

"Do not look so sad. We shall meet again soon."

"Please, Aslan," said Lucy, "what do you call soon?"

"I call all times soon," said Aslan; and instantly he was vanished away and Lucy was alone with the Magician.

"Gone!" said he, "and you and I quite crestfallen. It's always like that, you can't keep him; it's not as if he were a tame lion."

He always shows up at exactly the right time, but you can't control Him either. Something to remember, every time I want to put God in a box or keep Him on retainer.