A Second Hand Reference From "The Sacred Romance"
I was going through some of my more dated documents and I was pleasantly surprised by one of my favorite quotes I had forgotten.
"It is a world of magic and mystery, of deep darkness and flickering starlight. It is a world where terrible things happen and wonderful things too. It is a world where goodness is pitted against evil, love against hate, order against chaos, in a great struggle where often it is hard to be sure who belongs to which side because appearances are endlessly deceptive. Yet for all its confusion and wildness, it is a world were the battle goes ultimately to the good, who live happily ever after, and where in the long run everybody, good and evil alike becomes known by his true name... That is the fairy tale of the Gospel with, of course, one crucial difference from all other fairy tales, which is the claim made for it is that it is true, that it is not only happened once upon a time but has kept happening ever since and is still happening."
~Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy and Fairy Tale by Frederick Buecher
"It is a world of magic and mystery, of deep darkness and flickering starlight. It is a world where terrible things happen and wonderful things too. It is a world where goodness is pitted against evil, love against hate, order against chaos, in a great struggle where often it is hard to be sure who belongs to which side because appearances are endlessly deceptive. Yet for all its confusion and wildness, it is a world were the battle goes ultimately to the good, who live happily ever after, and where in the long run everybody, good and evil alike becomes known by his true name... That is the fairy tale of the Gospel with, of course, one crucial difference from all other fairy tales, which is the claim made for it is that it is true, that it is not only happened once upon a time but has kept happening ever since and is still happening."
~Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy and Fairy Tale by Frederick Buecher