ah..there it is...the child is gone

i love the line from "finding neverland" when johnny depp (as j.m. barrie) comments "ah...there it is...the child is gone..."

that moment when "reality" sets in and we no longer believe in santa claus, the easter bunny...magic...when we are far too sophisticated to be "duped" by such "nonsense"...

but i must admit that the older i get, the more i believe we are "duped" by logic and "common sense" and not be any sense of the wonder of our childhood...

as a matter of fact, i believe there is a reason jesus said you have to approach the kingdom of heaven as a little child...because they are the only ones who still see clearly...before their great "minds" get in the way...

i read this earlier today:: “Soon the child’s clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions, and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor of the ego. Not until years later does an instinct come that a vital sense of mystery has been withdrawn. The sun glints through the pines and the heart is pierced in a moment of beauty and strange pain, like a memory of paradise. After that day, we become seekers.” —Peter Muryo Matthiessen, courtesy of Parabola Magazine

so i challenge you to say to the bullying voices of "common sense" and what "everybody knows"..."shut up you big meanies!" and approach this season with the wonder of a child...open your mind, your heart, you soul to its magic...and see what impossible things you might discover...