Some people will tell you that fairies exist only in our imagination. Well, of course they do.
But how did we come to imagine them? What did we see in the early dawn of our childhood that made us think of the world as a place filled with fairies in the first place?
When the first story was ever told of fairies, why didn’t it just fall flat — because nobody recognized what was being described?
Why did the stories proliferate? What emptiness, what fascination, what desire, impels us to fall so easily under the spell of poetry and prose?
Why do children around the world believe in Tinkerbell, and believe that their belief empowers Tinkerbell to recover from what seemed like perishing, as we ourselves perish?

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But after our scientific observation has banished all this sort of thing, there remain to be explained all the images of tiny, seemingly weightless, slim, graceful and beautiful little girl-like creatures flitting about on the moonlit lawns and woodlands of our memories

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How many fairies are there? You need to learn one principle: We are not allowed to count fairies. You mustn’t even attempt it.
To do so would be to treat them as if they were just another part of the natural world, subject to our estimates, surveys, measurements and management like everything else.
That would be a grave error that might cause us to lose touch with them altogether.
Many people, insisting on banishing from their petty and uninteresting universes anything that can be neither scientifically observed or mathematically calculated, have indeed lost all touch with fairies. That’s why I feel so sorry for them.
To have lost the content of one’s own imagination is to have missed a valuable part of what the Creator has blessed us with.
Tragically, when I mention the Creator, some have lost touch with Him, too. They class Him with the fairies as the stuff of childhood fantasies.
They have cut themselves off not only from imagination, but also from rationality itself.
When the world is honestly and thoroughly examined by scientific method, and one fails to observe that every particle of it is pointing to something beyond itself, then science has been abandoned as well as belief.
The old Latin saying goes, “Finitum infinitum non capax.” That is, “The finite does not contain the infinite.” Our little understanding is unspeakably arrogant if it ever thinks that it has grasped the natural world.
This is not because the world is infinite — it isn’t. It’s because the world cannot be understood without recognizing its most salient characteristic, namely that it’s created.
The creature points to its Creator, not in imagination but in valid reasoning about the actual facts.
Fairies are important because they keep the door open for those supernatural creatures like the angels of God, whom Jesus said “neither marry nor or given in marriage.”
He said this of resurrected human beings, who after death and judgment “are like the angels in heaven,” who live eternally, and are not replaced by another generation.
Expel God from your universe if you choose. But in order to do so, you will have to expel everything that makes you human.
That’s a dreadful decision, that Jesus called the “outer darkness, where men weep and gnash their teeth.”