Fairy Tales Vs. Tales (Extra Credit)

          People believe that fairytales are the  stuff of wonder and astonishment.  They look to fairytales to awaken deep desires or to restore the child within themselves.   But do they realize that fairytales come from just normal tales?  G.K.Chesterton says this: "Mere life is interesting enough."

        I have always loved fairytales growing up.  The world of the fantastical always awakened my imagination, and in my mind, it was a beautiful place to be.  This morning, I sat down in the DC to eat my biscuits and gravy, and I looked out the window, and the angle I was at made it perfect for me to see  the sunlight breaking through and enlightening the leaves of the trees just outside, and I realized why would anyone want to travel to a far away, fantastical world when they already lived in one.  I believe that we get so caught up in what we don't have that we miss what we do have.  God has truly blessed us with our own fairytale world and if you don't think this is it , then you must know that Heaven is (at least, not the kind of fairytale that has evil in it, because there is no evil in Heaven, Heaven is perfect).  Heaven is the ultimate fairytale world that we must strive for.

        We are the man that has forgotten his name.  We are able to see and appreciate everything, but that doesn't excuse us for having forgotten who we are.  Who we really are is like our secret name. We don't know what that is, only God knows.  You know that feeling you get when you see something so breathtakingly beautiful and it feels as though time has stopped and there could be no place better than where you are at that moment?  Chesterton put it perfectly when he said "All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forget."