A Gnarled Key to Many Worlds

“We are familiar with the picture of a spoiled rich child with a family room full of expensive toys. He sits there in the corner, engaged in a furious sulk. Meantime, across town another little boy is filled with the goodness of life, running around in his back yard all afternoon, wonderfully occupied with a stick. Is the room full of toys a blessing? Only on the surface. Is the poverty of the stick an adversity? Not at all — it is a gnarled key that opens the doors of many worlds. Many of us remember with great fondness how blessed we were with such rich toys” (Joy at the End of the Tether, pp. 70-71).