At baptism, G.K. Chesterton must have received an irregularly large outpouring of the Spirit of Wonder and Awe. Either that, or that gift of the Spirit, nurtured by his artistic upbringing, grew to fill the irregular size of the man himself. He saw very clearly that baptism isn’t intended to make one a man so much as it is intended to make one a child. For a child, he says, lives in the wonder of the given reality while a man tends to live in the small and ultimately unsatisfying fantasy world he has created for himself.
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