Belief Like a Child: Once Upon a Time

Once upon a time, which is to say at a time beyond time, or belief that there was not because there could not be such belief was not because there could not be such at a different kind of time altogether from the kind the clock measures, or at time that is no time at all because it is without beginning which is to say that if you are to believe that there was, you have to give up other beliefs you believe in including the belief that there was not because there could not be such creatures as these.

A far country, a deep forest, a palace, which is to say you must be willing to enter them in some measure as a child because it takes a child to believe in the possibility at least that such places exist instead of dismissing them out-of-hand as impossible.

Frederick Buechner, Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, & Fairy Tale, HarperSanFrancisco.