“Who wants to watch Cinderella?!?!?”
That was the all important question that was asked at ever family gathering when I was 5. Not only at every family gathering, but EVERY DAY I watched Cinderella! I carried dishes and plates like her, I sang her songs, and I even pet mice! (that’s a whole other blog)
Now, I’m not saying it is strictly due to Cinderella, but my dreamer and optimistic view on life sometimes, can be an effect of the fairytale that was drilled into my mind at such a young age…a girl who was experiencing injustice, who meets her prince, and is saved from the life of misery that once consumed her.
This fairy tale seems to disappear more and more with the passing of each year. And with the reality of the injustices that befall our human race.
When I see and hear the images and sounds of Haiti, I start to think.. ” I’m going to be there in August. This is reality. This suffering is reality, the children lying dead on the streets…this is reality..Where is their prince? Who was there to save them? Where is their happily ever after?”
As I’m typing this and typing the word “prince”.. One Prince keeps coming to my mind.. the Prince of Peace.. Jesus..
What if fairy tales are a reality after all? What if the characters are just all wrong?
If I’m going to accept the reality of injustice and death, then I would be a fool not to accept the reality of life after death, and the hope for injustice. I can’t be a realist in one aspect of life, and then a pessimist in another.. I mean after all.. in the end, isn’t that what everyone is searching for? Something/ Someone who is REAL, not fake or made up, or imagined..
What if the characters were set up like this:
Evil Stepmother- Satan
Stepsisters- demons
Cinderella- those facing social injustice
The Fairy God-Mother- God/Holy Spirit
Prince- Jesus
Well, when put into that context… There is a Prince of Peace that can calm and soothe in the midst of any tragedy, and it’s that same Peace that I want to show to others around me…Its the same Peace that I have as I type the end of this blog. It’s the Peace in knowing that this life is but a vapor, and I will be with Him for all eternity one day. It’s the Peace that I pray will blanket those in Haiti, and that those in Haiti will accept..
One last thing..Cinderella’s prince went looking for her.. and that is what Jesus, the Prince of Peace, is doing..Will those of us hurting, here and internationally, accept His peace?
There IS a happily ever after… if we would allow the Prince of Peace to give it to us…
Agenda: Love,
Bethsaida
