Fairy Dust
This week I have a treat for you. A short essay from my lovely
wife, Ann.
Enjoy BRAD
Be ye like little children to enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Given it is that time of year for Halloween, I had the
opportunity to dress up and go to a church Halloween party. So I
donned my purple dress and borrowed my daughter's fairy wings,
fairy headdress and went as a fairy godmother. A quick and easy
costume, little did I know what would come out of being a fairy
godmother for the night.
While at church I met two other fairies just starting on their
journey as fairies, I have been on mine for over 50 years now.
Both of the other fairies were new to flying and understanding
that it takes a good deal of imagination to make it work. One
was a believer and one was not. So while these first grade
fairies parents were tied up with other church duties, I thought
we could take a flight around the church. It took a little
coaxing on our part to our non-believing low imagining fairy but
with a little encouragement she was able to see that you can fly
if you just try.
We decided to fly into the sanctuary and sprinkle fairy dust
over all the seats so that when people came to church the next
morning they would receive happiness and joy upon entering. My
first fairy friend said we needed buckets of fairy dust and
proceeded to go to the tech booth and produce two huge (although
invisible) buckets of dust. We then flew through the church
sprinkling fairy dust everywhere we could imagine.
It was great to fly and spread joy and happiness to unsuspecting
church members who would never know what we had done the night
before. This happy little band of fairies had great fun
spreading fairy dust all over our church. At the end of the
evening when one of the volunteers was vacuuming the carpet my
little friend said, "Don't vacuum the fairy dust!" This gave me
great joy to know this little fairy was watching out over her
work and did not want it destroyed.
It made me wonder how many times have we gone around spreading
our own fairy dust of joy and happiness only to have it vacuumed
up by someone who is not thinking or unaware of their
grumpiness. So next time this happens remember "DON'T VACUUM THE
FAIRY DUST OF HAPPINESS AND JOY." Let it sprinkle on you all day
and enjoy the side affects.
May your day be filled with happiness, love and joy. Your fairy
godmother, Ann Swift November 2, 2005