Happy New Year! Yesterday I had a long phone conversation with my five and a half year old godson. What he said so delighted me that I asked him if I might put it on the blog. He said yes.
He was telling me about his favourite film, Gnomeo and Juliet. I haven't seen it yet, but have recorded it so that next time he tells me about it I won't be so clueless. Then he said,
'When I go to heaven we can have a party and all the gnomes will come out from the screen and all come to the party.'
'What a great party!' I said. I remember having similar thoughts about Narnia when I was older than he is. 'Can we have a little white pony, too?'
'Yes, and there'll be a library! A great big library with hundreds and hundreds of books everywhere and you can go in and you don't need a library card and you can read all the books you like, and when you go out you can just run in again whenever you want to!'
You little sweetie, so you think a library is heaven! And maybe the library in heaven is where you really can walk through the door of the wardrobe or the stable, or sail through the mists, and the yearning that a book can give us will be satisfied.
2 comments:
...This brought tears to my eyes; good, happy kind of tears. I do also like that notion! Thanks for sharing.
So glad you like this. I felt it was too good not to share
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