The light of God's presence, the warmth of true faith fill all the works of Hans Christian Andersen. A child who was read Andersen's fairy tales as a child will retain the joy of meeting this wonderful world for the rest of his life; An adult, having re-read these fairy tales, will be surprised at how true and deep the laws of the good fairy-tale world are, where, indeed, “The Lord God directs everything for the better.”