G.K. Chesterton once wrote: “Fairy tales do not give the child the idea of the evil or the ugly; that is in the child already, because it is in the world already. … What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon. ”
I used to wake up every morning and read the news. Every morning the headlines would change, but the message was always the same: The dragon was winning.
But then I left the world for two years and lived in a Catholic religious community. I woke up each morning and prayed the psalms with my fellow religious. Every morning the psalms changed, but the message was always the same: The dragon had been defeated.
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