Life is NOT a fairytale and Disney isn't doing us any favors...

I have no idea where this thought is going to take me but I do know I have a million other ones bursting to be written. I also know where it will ultimately lead. The one and only true Kingdom!

As a little girl I thought in my heart that someday I could be Cinderella. That everything I ever needed or wanted would be made available to me on a silver platter. I certainly didn't come from a home where any silver platters existed.

I grew up in a small town with small means. I didn't even know we were poor. I had clothes, food, a new doll every Christmas, a bed...even if I did share it with a brother and a sister, a dog named Albert, and one of those big deep tubs with feet.

I think I was a happy child, even though my mom always said I was her biggest crybaby. I still am!!! I remember playing in a pile of dirt all day making mud pies and decorating them with dandelions. I also loved to play with my brother driving matchbox cars through the roads we carved out with sticks. We would rake leaves into paths with larger openings that were our own little space, our room. If I had just a small place that I could call my own I could be happy there. I could make it "perfect" for me. My castle!

Some people would say those were the hard days...but they weren't. Those were the best days. Those were the days when pain and loss had not broken my heart into a million pieces. Those were the days when I still believed in "happily ever after." I am sure you can remember those days too. That would be a fairytale...and that is not the reality of this thing called life.

The reality of this life can come at you hard. It can rip loved ones from you with cancer. It can steal their minds with depression. It can drown your dreams in a single wave. It can turn your plans upside down in an instant. We just can't rely on fairytales...after all...

The apple a day theory sure didn't work out for Snow White...it was poisoned...

The glass slipper may have led the prince back to Cinderella but really people, can you imagine what your foot looks like crammed in a glass slipper...that ain't a pretty sight...

Lady married the tramp...

Frogs don't turn into princes they just pee on you when they get scared...

really guys...green tights...

never say never...oh you better say never a lot...

how many beauties end up with a real beast...

straw can be spun into gold...well maybe if you grow it for a crop...

prince charming...probably still lives with his mother...

took 7 dwarfs to take care of one woman...that's against the law...

I take it you get the point by now. Life is certainly not a fairytale. It is life. It is hard and it is real. Fortunately we don't have to depend on "Prince Charming" to come along and make our world perfect.

Be encouraged my fairytale friends because we can always depend on the King of all Kings to be there with us through each and every second of this life. He will walk with or carry you through the good times, the hard times, the bad times, the desperate times, the lonely times, the painful times, the impossible times. And when all is said and done you will be stronger. You will be able to help others in their troubled times. You will be in His arms and His will.

When The King decides your days in this place are complete He will bring you home... to a Kingdom called Heaven that He has prepared for you. Your own "little space" that will be just perfect for you!!! And you won't care if the platters are silver :) They may even be gold...

Pamela Carol Aire To The Throne