The timing of this news story is quite interesting:  Madeleine L’Engle died today.  It’s interesting because just two days ago, I finished reading her classic book, A Wrinkle in Time, for the very first time.  I enjoyed it, but I’m not sure I really understand its deeper meaning.  I know this confession makes me sound stupid or backward.  (After all, why on earth did it take me 30+ years to read it in the first place?!)  Let me try to explain by comparing this work to, say, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis.  The allegory and underlying meaning to Lewis’s book is quite clear to me.  E.g. Aslan is a figure of Christ.  I have to admit that when I read Lewis’s series for the first time as a young child, this imagery or allegory wasn’t obvious to me then, either.  For L’Engle’s book, just what does Mrs. Which stand for?  Or Mrs. Whatsit?  Call me an idiot but I just can’t seem to “get it.”