Have you ever found yourself battling the fairy tale world of happy endings that you put all your eggs in the basket of as a little girl? Sometimes it's "I want to kill all make believe pretenses of humans that are heroes "... And, "I have finally decided that no man can actually be Prince Charming without having some version of a frog or an ogre in there somewhere"...and, "the only reason fairy tales exist is to show us our hearts desires that only God can fill"...
But then, there are those moments when everything gets shaken up. The bottom of life nearly falls out, your tiny box of this is how things work explodes, the one you love breaks your heart, or you break his.. And then you are faced with the challenge. Will you fight for love?
Wait a minute.. Now, I seem to recall something about a prince slaying a dragon to get to the princess he loves.. Maybe there is a little something to this fairy tale stuff in a not so perfect way and unconventionally being played out..
In a silent hero kind of way. Fighting foes like resentment, rejection, fear, insanity, shame, self hatred., betrayal..
To fight for love, might mean you silently slay the dragon, heart wrenchingly crying out to the Savior for miraculous intervention, or by having a vulnerably honest conversation.. But, it's still slaying the dragon. AKA, showing up in a fairy tale in one way or another.
So now it's the every day joe who could maybe be a hero. If he so chooses to except the challenge, he can do something amazing like strike up a fairytale on the corner of 5th and Main. Or, rather we should say, bring heaven to earth.. Cause that my friends is the true thing of this discussion, right? Heaven is for real. It's where all the rainbows live. And if there ever were any unicorns to exist, I'm certain that it would be in heaven.. And it's the land of the Hero, and of hero makers.
So, if you are having a little bit of a fairytale gone haywire.. Don't know what to do with your Prince Charming, let a little love into the picture. And you are likely to see a glimpse here and there if your fairytale and watch heaven invade our earthen soil.
