Rewriting Your Fairytale: Joyfully-Ever-After
Do you remember Little Child, how you used to love to sit and read fairytales with on your mother’s lap? Often, by yourself, you would look at the pictures even though you could not read the stories by yourself. Your mind was a fresh white page, upon which the tender hopes of “Once Upon a Time” was written in a child’s hand, and through a childlike perspective. Dreams of “Happily-Ever-After’s” filled your mind with hopes for a glorious future. As a child, you did not comprehend the difference between reality and visionary. Oh, what a believing heart you had! Cherish the believing child, for it is she who will lead you into the kingdom of love, joy and peace.
The Believing Child simply believed all that she heard. The stories spoke of handsome princes rescuing damsels in distress. They made it look like a good thing to be a weak thing. The pages transformed pumpkins into coaches, and little white mice into coachmen. There were fairygodmother’s and seven dwarfs that somehow managed to make dreams come true. The Believing Child accepted the fairytale impressions that filled her mind and no one taught her to believe any differently. As the little girl grew into young womanhood, she was taught to believe that marrying in the King’s House would ultimately lead to a happy ever after.
Soon, she hoped that she would be dancing off into the sunrise and sunset of mortality with a handsome prince by her side, in glass slippers that fit perfectly. The first kiss from her very own prince charming seemed to only further convince her that fairytales come true and that her dreams were sending her on her way into a life of bliss and ecstacy. She fell in love with the idea of being in love and didn’t read the fine print on the prince’s resume. Neither one of them truly took the time to ask enough questions and get enough answers. The starlight was shining too brightly in each other’s eyes. Do not chastize the Believing Child for dreaming her “Once Upon a Time” dreams. It is the very quality of “Believing” that we need in order to awaken the Sleeping Child, who fell into a graceful surrender of sleeping forgetfulness when the magical fairy dust turned to ashes before her very eyes. She felt betrayed. She felt abandoned. And eventually, she stopped believing in castles, and princes, and coaches, and fairy godmother’s, and fairy dust. As a child, you thought as a child; it is time to put childish thoughts away.
But, it is in the resurrection of the child’s believing heart that she will be taught the realities of the True Prince, the Real Kingdom, the Plan of Salvation, the purpose of opposition, and that the metaphor for the Fairy Godmother, is fact, the Atonement of Jesus Christ, which transforms childhood sorrows into the Song of Redeeming Love. It’s time to awaken the sleeping child from her silent and lingering slumber of sadness and teach her how to believe again! It’s time to teach her what she can believe in and in whom she can believe! I shall teach her that she can believe in God, her Eternal Father and in her Eternal Mother! I shall teach her that miracles still happen for those who believe and endure to the end! I shall teach her how important her gift of believing is in order to create a far more glorious future than she ever dream possible! I shall teach her to believe that with God, nothing is impossible! Come, bring Me the Cherish the Believing Child and bring all of her past disillusions with life, with love, with happy-ever-after’s to the Bridegroom, even the Son of God. The Truth is, that it will take the gifts of believing, trust and faith to create the reality of a truly “Joyfully Every After”.
Suggested Song: I am Your Prince by John Canaan/
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