Those words have been ingrained into every little girl's mind. As well as: Happily. Ever. After.
Thank you Disney for creating such an amazing picture of how life is supposed to be:
Beautiful Girl + Tall Dark and Handsome (oh, and usually a prince) = Happily Ever After.
Wait, wait, wait!
These things, though appealing, aren't reality; and though I'm a sucker for a good fairytale, I know they don't equal happiness.
What, then, does create happiness in the context of love?
The Bible says this about love:
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.
Paul, one of the greatest servants of the Lord, also said this about love:
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
At the end of the day, it's not about the tall dark and handsome prince that rides in on his white stallion to save the day. I spent my 20's looking for this prince. I had it all wrong. The Prince I need isn't going to ride in and save me...the Prince I need already has saved me. And not by awakening me from a poison-apple-induced-slumber. And He didn't ride a noble stead...He rode a lowly donkey, and HE DIED ON A CROSS for me. FOR ME! But don't worry...He died on a cross for you too!
That, my friends, is LOVE. And I'll take that over a fairytale any day.
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