"Come, darling, I want you to see how many children we have...if we count all their feet it makes fourteen."

"And if we count all their hands, too, it will make twenty-eight."

"And how about their fingers and toes?"

Even Papa was laughing now with Mama, "Oh, Pontus," she cried, "I think we are just the luckiest Papa and Mama on the whole of God's earth!"

(~Thyra Ferre Bjorn, Papa's Wife)

Yes and yes and yes! I am so very thankful for the dear little ones God has entrusted to our home, our care, our love. 

"I was sitting there the other day," she says, gesturing toward the balcony, "watching the sun set. And I was thinking, I am so happy now. I love being alive. I just want to be here. I want to stay." 

(~Elizabeth Berg, Talk Before Sleep)

That's how it feels. Just this deep longing to not just be here, to not just stay, but to BE. 

"And for us this is the end of all the stories, and we can most truly say that they all lived happily ever after. But for them it was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story, which no one on earth has read: which goes on forever: in which every chapter is better than the one before." (~C.S. Lewis. The Last Battle)

I love those two words, "at last". It makes me think of Ephesians and "but God". Two words carry so much weight. All their living and waiting and working and striving and adventuring... all of it had come to fruition. 

But God. 

At last. 

They are home. 

It's a beautiful thought.

Why "The Only True Magic"?

"Books may well be the only true magic" 
(~Alice Hoffman)

This is my space for words. And most of them will be the words of others that I have collected over the years. It is a respite for me to come here and write them and re-read them and find the magic of the ages.

So that is what this will be, a place where I will share quotes and books and the magic of words. I'd love you to float along in my magical realm with me, and hopefully the words that speak to me will speak to you, too.