February 10, 2022

Making Magic Real

Shawna Lemay wrote a post once about doing secret good deeds, and I think about this often, trying to commit my own fair share. These secret deeds which give the world its substance, magic and possibility.

One night I crept into my children’s room to be the tooth fairy. In the morning, the amount of money the fairy had left was DOUBLED… because the little sister on the bottom bunk had been sneakily awake and discovered the truth of being grown up, which is that magic is where we make it…

And it was two years ago now, when the pandemic was still a baby and everything was AWFUL that magic arrived on our doorstep with a chocolate delivery from The Easter Bunny.

Like, the ACTUAL Easter Bunny, or something, because I certainly knew nothing about it, and was so bowled over that somebody had taken the time to make magic happen for our family. What a world we live in where such a thing can happen.

But then last year the Easter Bunny came again. Still a mystery.

And today, Bunny shows up for Valentine’s because Easter comes late this year and it’s just too long to wait…and we still have NO IDEA where this goodness is coming from, though we have our suspicions, but everyone we’ve ever asked claims they know nothing about it.

Keep doing secret good deeds, my friends. Go out there and make magic happen. You can be the reason that someone out there believes in miracles. You have more power than you think.