I'd like to start out by saying I believe each and every one of our lives is indeed like a fairy tale. Not necessarily in the sense that there's magic(hence the title), or elves, or fairies, or all that jazz. But really, one of the big sort of "essences" of a fairy tale is what people like to call the "happily ever after." And THAT'S what I'm talking about. Before I get into it, I guess I should touch on the fact that not ALL of us will get that "happily ever after". Darn. Now I'm contradicting myself. But I'll explain.
Anyway. What I mean is this. You may not have the whole happy go lucky get the girl, get rich, vanquish the villain style happy ending. But that doesn't mean you're outta luck! For one, that's really not your "ending" per say, so truly no fairy tale has a "happily ever after" ending that we can see. But also, you don't really even NEED all of that. Sure, it's nice to get the girl; it's nice not to have any villains; and DEFINITELY nice to be rich; but you can live without all that, happily too! Even so, that's not the point. So I don't know why I went on that tangent, other than that I said "for one", causing me to have to come up with a number two.
Anyway. Again. You're "happily ever after" ending comes after what most people consider the ending. It comes with the new life you gain, by being admitted into the throne room of Christ! That, my friends, is your Happily EVER After. To be in the very presence of our Lord, for; well forever. Hard to grasp, and it hurts my head all the time to try to think about it. But man oh man. To be worshiping and partying with our creator for EVER. Geesh.
Well that was a lot of emphasised words...
Anyway, like I said, we won't all get this happy ending. I'm pretty sure all of you reading this at the moment will, simply because I have about ten readers or less(combining the ones from blogger and xanga) ;) and you're all avid Jesus Freaks! But, some, those who don't believe in Christ, who directly shun Him. Well. Let's just say their ever after won't be much of a happy one. Which is a sad thing to have to say, I must admit. But we must repent of our sins, and turn to Jesus.
"Okay Mikey, are you done with your fairy tale analogy yet?" No, not quite. I've got another thing to touch on... If I can only remember what it was!..
Ah yes.
It's sort of a more stupid point, which is why I held off, but I think it's all together a bit amusing! I do hope so.
Technically, this even ties back in with the "happily ever after"! So we're not straying too far! So you can feel free to sit back, unbuckle your seat belt, and enjoy the ride. No bumps! I promise!
Well, like I said, that whole get the girl/live a rich prosperous life/vanquish your enemy/whatever it is your happy ending has. If you think about it, a lot of people's happy endings would simply collide. Say for instance, a love triangle? Or take your enemy! How is he going to feel being vanquished and all? Something tells me, it's not the most cheery feeling. But maybe that's me? I don't think so.
. . .
Sometimes everyday life can feel like a fairy tale. Or maybe an adventure story, at any rate. There've been a lot of bumps on our families road lately (okay fine, you can buckle your seat belt!). Specifically, the real bump of snow! How many inches now? It's insane. And there's more expected tomorrow! Goodness gracious. Also, recently, mum got through her last bad chemo! Finally, she's done with the dreadful taxaul, that literally has taxed all of her, and even us too! It's been a crazy run. Finally, all that's left is the lovely Herceptin! And then we're all done. Celebrations will definitely commence.
Another bump has been the re-start up of school. Boy, it's been tough, let me tell you. Five weeks off is nice, but getting back into rythm after that is nigh impossible at first. Things finally seem to be flowing though. Co-op's been going well; things've been a little rough there I guess, but it's all good. One thing I'd like to say about co-op is how amazing everybody is at just being; well, amazing. I mean first day back, everybody was stunningly fun to hang with, and it's just nice to see everybody so loving to everybody! Only in a Christian community like this do you see so much love :)
Probably the biggest bump that's coming up is our almost 30-page midterm for history. That is going to be one tough cookie to crack. ETA is probably this Friday, and hopefully it goes by breezily. We'll see!
A parting note to think on:
Fairy tales have immense struggles all throughout the books, making it interesting. But in the end, the character always pulls through. In God's story, He will always pull you through in the end.
5 comments:
That was good Mikey...thank you for the closing thought, it gives me hope.
Very interesting post, Mikey. I really liked the thought about people's happy endings colliding. Maybe that's why there are about the same number of men as women, and maybe that's why Jesus tells us to love our enemies.
C.S. Lewis had that same premise of colliding happiness in The Problem of Pain, which is a cool book. Not to mention, is it cool that you are on track with that amazing, mind-boggling theology, my budding theologian/writer.
Also, wondering if you thought of Divine Comedy when you were writing this? Which is another analogy to life, similar to your fairy tale one, with the happy ending and all.
I Love you, Mikey. Keep up the deep thinking and the writing and the just being freaking amazing.
Love this post, Mikey!!! I've never linked Christ and Heaven to "Happily ever after" and now I feel very assured that that's what we'll have.
And if you think about it, Christ has already vanquished our enemy, so He's already dealt with the dangerous part.
;)
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