“The night wore on. The waters rose and rose. The moon rose likewise higher and higher, and shone full on the face of the dying prince. The water was up to his neck.
“Will you kiss me, princess?” said he feebly. The nonchalance was all gone now. “Yes, I will,” answered the princess, and kissed him with a long, sweet, cold kiss.
“Now,” said he, with a sigh of content, “I die happy.”
-The Light Princess by George MacDonald
Since Valentine’s Day is coming up, it is time for some good love stories. My very favorite love stories are contained in George MacDonald’s book “The Golden Key and Other Stories”. There are four rather short love stories making up the entire book. Written in the eighteen hundreds and by an astonishingly wonderful author, these are in my opinion, the most divine fairy tale stories of all time. They do contain witches and evil but also light and goodness and true love. There is no nasty smut to keep you from sharing them with your children. If you are OK with your kids watching Snow White or Cinderella, then you’ll probably be OK letting them enjoy these stories too. Not only are they sweet stories, but George MacDonald ingeniously creates theological parallels with Christ our Savior and his sacrificial death to bring us life, the ways that God is ever changing us and bringing us closer to him, and others;echoing the real, ture love story of all time. Hunt for them as you read.
Happy reading, and Happy Valentine ’s Day.
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