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Magic and Those Who Just Don't Get It
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The Ball Cap of Christian Kindness

Call me childish and I'll thank you because youth is what my heart strives for. Children believe in magic. In spite of the disappointments of their unanswered wishes they do not fail in this belief unless some fool of an adult preaches it out of them. Someone too "grown up" inside to bother with such things and thus decides that others shouldn't bother either.

There are people who twinkle. The twinkle comes from the magic of the heart and shines in the eyes. There are people who cannot twinkle because they are too grown up for magic. I endeavor to twinkle, although I cannot always. I tend to allow others to douse my spark and it is this tendency that should become my resolution to abolish each and every new year.

Some people lose their twinkle because of life experiences. They daily see vile things and soon grow to expect vile things everywhere and in the hearts of all others. They cannot live freely and always attempt to warn others away from living freely. Here are a couple of clues. Not everyone is out to rip you off. MOST people are honest. If you do not feel this way, then this is a dark spot on your own soul that is begging to be healed and needs your attention so that you can twinkle once again. Unless such people heal their souls, they grow more and more untrusting and more and more miserable. Unable to contain all that fear, sadness and paranoia, they want to spread it around and have everyone looking over their shoulder or looking suspiciously at their neighbors.

There are some people who cannot twinkle because they assume that their favorite deity will twinkle through them without assistance. They confuse what amounts to wearing a bright ball cap with a giant logo of the words Christian Kindness with a true twinkle. As long as everyone knows they believe in this logo they're good to go and just fine and dandy individuals. Magic? HAH Phooey. No time for that silliness! Just do the Christian Kindness thing and we can be to dinner in an hour. Our deity will take care of the sparkle in our souls so we don't have to! Wrong.

Becoming too grown up is easy, that's why so many people are. If retaining the twinkle of childhood magic were as easy as becoming too grown up, I'd be better at it and more people would attempt it. Being grown up or mature are what we've always been told we're supposed to strive for. We are not often told to strive for wisdom, which is a helluva lot more important than just being mature and only on the rarest of instances are we told to retain magic. Being mature is "In". Retaining a child-like nature is silly.

What is truly sad, however, is when non-twinklers work to ruin the enchanted moments that twinklers work very hard to gift to others. They feel like they'll just burst open if they don't run around waving that ball cap with the giant logo around showing how wonderful we all have been. "TADA! There was no magic, it was us, in all our Christian Kindness glory because you were so hard up and we were so fabulous and care so very deeply that you're in deep doo doo!! Aren't we just the greatest! Here, give us a hug because we care so much! Okay gotta jet, we're running late". Or they rain on the magic parade by instilling the fear that something will go horribly wrong and all will be lost because evil beings lurk in every shadow ready to pounce.

Non-twinklers can really pee on my spark, because deep down everyone needs magic. Even as our brains hand us a list of probabilities and facts surrounding an unexpected boon, a healthy heart will flutter with the excitement of magical possibilities. Why? BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT MAGIC IS! It's not evil, it's not vile, it's not from satan, nor is it foolish. Magic is from the heart. It is an invisible gift to share with others. If you are too mature, too saintly, too busy or too careful to nurture and share this magic then you and the world around you grow colder.