Once upon a time there was a girl. She was very beautiful and smart and athletic. One day a handsome prince noticed her beauty. After a while he asked her to marry him and the common girl became a princess. The prince and the princess got married in a huge old cathedral, with the whole world watching and cheering, and lived happily ever after.
For the past 2 days the engagement of Prince William and Kate Middleton has been all over the news. More than that, there doesn't seem to be any news other than the engagement of William and Kate. It is like the whole world; all of the dark dealings of secret terrorists cells, all of the natural disasters, all of the financial crises, stopped so that the whole world could be caught up in the engagement of these two people. None of those things stopped of course. The news media just decided that no one wanted to hear about the bad stuff as much as they wanted to hear about the prince and future princess.
Why the fascination?
I think it is because deep inside every woman there is a vulnerable little girl who wants to be the princess.
We long to be beautiful and be loved by the prince. We want his love for us to elevate us from commoner to royalty. We want to be at the center of the celebration. We want to live happily ever after. But, that is just a fairy tale. It isn't really real, even for William and Kate.
Except it is. Actually, the real story is even better. Here is the storyboard; the general outline of the story.
We were in a real mess. The handsome prince named Jesus came to the rescue. He wooed us. He asked us to live forever with him in paradise. At the end of the story there will be a wedding feast. He will be the groom and his church (that's you and me!) will be the bride. The whole universe will watch and cheer.
That is our real story. The whole thing is going to happen. Right now we just happen to be in the middle of the story. This is the part where things are messy and ugly and seem like they just aren't going to work out right. All good stories have to have that part. If they didn't, the end of the story wouldn't be as satisfying. Just wait though. The happy ending is coming, and you get to be the princess.
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