I just finished reading the last of Stuart Little tonight to Blakely. The last page had an interesting quote I repeated 3 times, talking about a fence "that had been broken by years of standing still." Very powerful quote isn't. Much too often our fear is that in our efforts to try something new, or to leap out in faith or to meet new people we will become broken. But on the contrary to our thoughts, and unbeknownst to us (is that a word) it is the standing still that will truly break us.
I was trying to give a summary of the story as we finished the book to BK, and found myself sitting at an opportunity to teach something very important. You see, this entire book she has been asking me "do you think he'll find Margalo", his friend that flew off? I'm sure he was going to at the end, but that's not the way it ended. I found myself sitting there thinking, why didn't he find his friend... and then it hit me. Stuart, no matter where we ended up, found new friends.
(You like how I put we in that sentence, instead of he? I didn't even realize it till reading back. You think I got something from this book?) It wasn't about the original purpose to leave home and find "his friend" it was the journey throughout the book that made Stuart into the person, or mouse he is today. Those contacts, those friends, those experiences give him the comfort and motivation to push him forward in finding what it is he is looking for.
All that from a book about a mouse....
