“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.  Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”

– Roald Dahl

Do you believe in magic?  Well, it really doesn’t matter, I suppose, because magic will go on existing whether you believe or not.  As one who cherishes the magic all around me, I sincerely hope that you will open the eyes of your heart and revel in it, too.

Albert Einstein’s wisdom tells us that there are two ways to live our lives — as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is.  Some years back, after hearing constantly that I read too much into things — that not everything has a meaning, I decided to quiet those voices once and for all.  From that day on, I would live as though everything really did have meaning.  The transformation that has come to my life through seeing with my heart as well as with my eyes truly has been magical; and now I see that magic wherever I go.

Just before dawn each day, the birds outside my house begin to sing.  It is their song that awakens the sleeping sun and calls it to slowly arise from its bed below the horizon to light the day.  Drops of dew land as water on the lawn each night as we sleep; but when the sun’s light touches them, they turn to diamonds.  Crows call out from the treetops as I take my morning walk; and what I hear is “here she comes!” and I answer them with, “how are you today, and what is on your mind?” A symphony of color and aroma and sensation touches me with delight wherever I walk, and none is more spectacular than the orange-red-purple music of the sunset as it relinquishes the sky to the velvet silence of night.

A stone sits in a basket on my shelf, atop some shells I found near it on the beach.  To some, it might be an interesting rock — black and white — and I’m sure there are good explanations for the way it was formed.  When I first saw it, with the waves whispering in the background, I knew it was showing me the heart of the sea.

That’s magic for you!  Once you unleash it in your life, nothing will ever be the same again!