Magic, like religion, is personal. It has different meanings based on experience. The older a person gets the less likely to believe until the hill has been topped and the eyes have been opened. What once was thought of as impossible becomes attainable, the absurd takes on a new meaning, and the soul is allowed to grow.

It is not so much the supernatural that offends people; it is the unbelievable that gets people's attention. What cannot be explained by logic or science or mortal minds is cast off as occult workings by the underworld….Hhmm. Simply isn't so. There are evils in the world but those, too, have their place….as much as we do not want to accept that. Just something else that cannot be explained away by our limited knowledge.

I suspect that ordinary men and women of Jesus' day had a really hard time explaining away his miracles. He was probably thought of as a sorcerer, a magician, and a member of the underworld. He turned water into wine, cast out demons, walked on water, healed the sick, raised the dead, fed thousands with one person's lunch, and communicated with his Father who was in a different world. Not exactly your run-of-the-mill guy. Yet, hundreds believed.

I believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, the Boogy Man, the Fairy GodMother, the Wicked Witch of the West and everything else in-between. Why? Because I believe in the Divine and all that was created in their image.

After all, wasn't THAT magic?