#johnmarkmcmillan

(via https://open.spotify.com/track/65bYvQEQeSLkIDfAYb19jm?si=2r5_Ei5NS86vBo4wtEK3Og)

“...It’s this way with all good things, there is a sacrifice that stands between you and everything good. See, children take your old, used up, faded glory and they kill it. But in return they give you something else. They take your dying youth and give you a chance to experience a new childhood, not just your inflated memories of some forgotten glory days, but a glorious new youth. They kill you, but they give you a new life. They give you the opportunity to enjoy all the things that you and your smug sophistication forgot that you loved. They give you snakes, and horses, and trampolines. They give you Mario, and Saturday cartoons. They give you dogs, and bicycles, and nature shows. They give you costumes, forts, trains, and airplanes. Paper mâché, comic books, Harry Potter, Star Wars, Dr. Seuss. When everyone else passes a cow or a horse as though it was just a tree or a rock, you get to stop and glory again in their majesty. and then you get to glory in the rock and the tree, too. Because your sad, glazed over, practical, numb to beauty eyes have been torn open again by creatures who still recognize the transcendence in things that we have mistakenly grown to consider common. They find a galaxy of meaning in a duck, a frog, or a baseball. In this way children literally see the world better and more accurately than we do. They teach us a new way to see the world, ourselves, and God. So Magic Mirror is a song about my kids. About how I feel like they make me see myself, and God, and the world in a different way.”