In seeing creation in its relationship to God, we see beneath the surface to the soul of it; its wonder and beauty become a powerful reality. The muggles that surround us will disdain that vision, accusing us of being incurable romantics looking at the world through rose-tinted glasses. "It's a jungle out there," they say, "a treacherous, messed-up world, a vale of tears, an arena of struggle for survival, and to see things oterwise is simply not facing up to reality." But the Christian sees everything through a new set of lenses - not rose tinted but polarized. Rather than coloring reality with an artificial clarity. We see the solid truth about creation - the original steel beneath the coating of rust. The rust is no the truth about the metal; it is a blight that obscures the truth.
--The Heart of The Chronicles of Narnia --
by Thomas Williams
the muggles view sounds like a particular view of someone i know...
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