The Fairytale

Sometimes the princess doesn't get rescued from the tower. Sometimes the prince doesn't kill the dragon. Sometimes the team doesn't win the championship. Sometimes the patient doesn't get a miracle. And that's life. It doesn't mirror the fairytales we were read as children or the stories we now read to our children. Sometimes you don't get the things you desire. Even if they are good things. Sometimes you don't get rescued from your circumstance or relived from your burden. Like Paul.

"To keep me from becoming conceited because because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But He said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.' Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why for Christ's sake I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties for when I am weak, then I am strong." 2 Corinthians 12:7-10

Do you know what makes my story a fairytale? Love. When I choose to turn from away from the struggle, despair, hopelessness, and fatigue I feel at work and look into the eyes of my husband, listen to the laugh of my son, and feel the warmth of the afternoon I see the love of Christ for me. A princess whose fairytale is being written day by day.

Look at my baby in his new boots! He had so much fun Saturday in the mud in boots I bought at a garage sale. My batteries on the camera died so I missed the mud. But I'll get it again.