There’s Magic All Around Us
“Do you really live on a ball spinning in circles through the stars? Does the heat from the closest star really make trees and grass and moss out of the carbon dioxide in the air? Have our wizards really pulled black ooze up from beneath the earth’s skin, mixed it in their lairs into something that explodes, and made us magical metal boxes than can race around on roads, riding on those explosions? Are you bored with that, yawning in your seat belt? Is lightning real? Tornados? Does the big spinning ball beneath us always suck us down, and are we really talented enough to constantly balance on our feet? What kind of creatures are we?
Sit Moses and Beowulf down, and listen to their stories. Sit Bilbo down and listen to his. Do you disbelieve their tales? Are they made up? Are they fantasy? Now tell them your stories. Have you flown through the sky in a giant metal tube? Do we have boats that can sail to the very bottom of the sea? Have we thrown men all the way to the moon?
A hobbit would laugh at you. To him, your world could not be real. Your stories would be fun to read, beneath a blanket on a rainy day. He might look out of his window and sigh, wishing for a more magical world of his own.
In my stories, this world is a magical place, and not because I wish it was. Because it is.”
- N.D. Wilson
That’s funny, I just got that book in the mail yesterday and last night my pastor (who calls it his favorite book ever) started our Bible study with a quote from it and then this morning you quoted from it…
I actually found the quote on an author bio page of his at Random House. Is it from Notes from the Tilt-a-Whirl, I’m assuming?
I assume it is… I’ll find out soon.
The best part of that whole quote is, “In my stories, this world is a magical place, and not because I wish it was. Because it is.”
I’ve always said that the stories in our mind become the stories of our life.
Thanks for these quotes.
David
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