A Story of Real Magic
“Oh! To make the world Magic again!”
Here is the real magic, creating miracles in everyday life. At this time of year, we can feel the yearning for our magic – when Christmas lights-up magic surprises around us, and we want it for our own.
A Real Story
It’s time to share the stories of magic that touch us all, that make us believe in our magic as we did in childhood. Here is one I found recently from a young mother named Nicky Barker, when she bore witness to her daughter’s real magic. This is excerpted from her blog: LittleOnes
“My daughter is 5 and she KNOWS that Santa is real, and she 100% believes in fairies. She will tell you that unicorns live on rainbows and that you can ride on clouds across the sky.
I absolutely envy her. The world around her is full of magic – imagine what living each day must be like, secure in that knowledge! This is absolutely what childhood is about; this is the stuff that makes children so incredible, the stuff we never want them to have to let go of.
Today we went for a walk down the end of our road, as we do regularly… and we found… a butterfly lying on the ground. She noticed it right away.
“It’s a Monarch” she tells me. She does, of course, know everything. Despite my insistence that it was just ‘sleeping’ on the ground, this girl is no fool; she saw it’s ripped wing and told me the butterfly was very injured and we had to save it at all costs. Her face was divine, she really wanted to save that dead butterfly.
So, thinking on my feet, I picked it up, and told her we’d put it in the bushes and the fairies would come and take it to the animal hospital, where they’d fix the butterfly’s wing and look after it until it was strong enough to fly away. She didn’t even have to think about it, she KNEW the fairies would come and take the butterfly to the animal hospital just like she knew the sky was blue. So, she tenderly placed the (dead) butterfly in the bushes and we continued our walk.
Enter the Magic!
Later that day we were playing outside, and a monarch butterfly flew past. “MUM!” she exclaimed with such joy; “the fairies fixed the butterfly!”. She was so excited she couldn’t stop pointing at it, laughing, and telling me again and again what had happened. “It’s fixed mum, they fixed the butterfly!” You couldn’t have paid me any amount of money to tell that beautiful little girl that there is more than one monarch butterfly in the whole world. I wouldn’t have done it. She was, without a doubt, in her moment of rapture, the happiest child that has ever lived.”
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Such joy! This is the real magic! As Jesse says in my novel, Becoming Jesse: “You ask, What is real? The things you can touch? More often it’s the things you can’t. Like jumping for joy.” [Light Lessons Ch5/p43]
Believe!
The secret to our real magic is to Believe! Believe with all your heart that you are the Magic. Our magnificent Magic is inside, and it can be nurtured like all natural creations – as a tree: knowing the strengths of its roots, the glory of its limbs, growing in the sunlight and growing in its own light. Yes, a tree stands tall and proud and beautiful – enjoying its views, through the cycles of every season,
Our Real Everyday Magic
Tich Nat Hahn, a Buddhist monk from Viet Nam, and a peace activist, looks for and finds the magic of miracles everywhere: “Every day we are engaged in miracles which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the bright, curious eyes of a child… all is a miracle.” Tich Nat Hahn
Marianne Williamson uses this thread in her Course of Miracles, saying: “I am a glorious child of God. I am joyful, serene, positive, and loving.”
And, once again, Becoming Jesse reminds us: “You have a magic in you. It’s real. It’s your Light. No matter what Life tosses your way. Be the Light. Weaving happy-joy-fun-laughing-loving.” [Light Lessons Ch6/p57]
Our real Magic is here when we truly see our children – and each other – shining with Light; like starlight – that spectacular, rapturous Light with which each and every baby is born. I believe we can polish our little star children, so they know how to shine-shine-shine better than ever. It’s all about keeping our…
LIGHT ON!
