The only thing that's strong enough to bear the full weight of revelation is mystery, along with poetic and symbolic language. Science and technology collapse under the enormity of it all. Understanding, and the knowledge that leads to understanding is very important. We live in a university town, an intellectual community devoted to the pursuit of knowledge and understanding. But wisdom is superior, deeper and far more profound a reality than is knowledge or understanding.
Wisdom is found in the realms of mystery, and is the only true path to revelation.
We should not let our modern technological world and culture rob us of our innate sense of mystery. We should not let our children be deprived of having a childhood. We should not deprive ourselves of something that children can point to, namely the world of awe, reverence and mystery. To enter those realms we must, as Jesus told us, become as little children. Children, as we all know, love stories.