Books and movies can sometimes have profound and life changing effects on a person's life. One book had that effect on my life.When I was around 10 a good friend of my family suggested that I would read the book "The Silver Chair" by CS Lewis - in Swedish it is called "Silvertronen" (I could not read English very well when I was that young so I read the Swedish edition). It is one of the books in the Narnia series.
The woman who let me borrow her book had a strong intuition and obviously knew that this would be a very good book for me to read as a young girl.
This book started my spiritual path and was the starting point for everything that I am today. Not bad for one book. ;) On some level this book triggered memories of things that I already knew and things I wanted to know more about. It ignited a spark inside of me that has guided me to be on a spiritual path ever since.
Later I read all the Narnia books and loved every one of them. When the movies came out I watched them with great joy. The first movie "The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe" was fantastic to see. I did not care about the underlying Christian message that triggered reactions in many people but just enjoyed the magic of the book that was very well captured in the movie. What the book I first read (The Silver Chair) reminded me of was the magic that is everywhere and that we are a part of it. I have always had this feeling that magic is more natural than "non-magic."
Another book that also changed my life is "Excuse Me Your Life is Waiting" by Lynn Grabhorn. This is what I wrote about that book. A completely different kind of book but it has the same quality of lighting a spark and it also shows the magic we can have in our lives.
I will come back to other books and movies that have had a big effect on my life and that are truly inspiring.
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