HAPPILY EVER AFTER?
Why do some of us have such a hard time believing in heaven, an eternal paradise, ‘happily ever after’ etc? These are the themes of the fairy tales most of us were fairly taken with when we were children, weren’t they? Ah, but that’s it, when we were children. We have experienced enough disappointments in our lives since then to wisen us up to the fact that that’s all they were…fairytales. How silly we were to believe in true love, in great adventures and living forever in this state!
Or were we? Have a look around. Observe and listen. Stop and gaze up at the sky some dark starry night, or wake up and watch a sunrise, or catch the sun going down over the ocean’s horizon. Listen to a baby’s laugh, or a song that is hauntingly beautiful, and consider…where did all this come from? Are you kidding? Bumbles bees and kangaroos, killer whales and giraffes, snow, the northern lights, passionfruit, a woman’s long hair, a lover’s kiss…all this and so much more, and not some designer/lover God behind it all? Just a freak accident?
Well, if that’s our conclusion, we can’t be blamed for being synical about a happily ever after. After all, we hit it incredibly lucky once, getting all this by accident, so what are the odds of it happening again in any eternity? Makes the chances of winning the lottery seem downright optimistic in comparison.
Even after so many years of doing our best to mess up this planet, there are still miracles of life and stunning beauty surrounding us daily. Is heaven and and ‘happily ever after’ really such a stretch? Could you have even begun to imagine all this before us now? Probably not, but then just try to imagine, if you could, what an amazing, loving, omnipotent God could imagine and prepare for his true love…us, his own who love and dare believe Him. Not only can he imagine it, he is preparing it and he’s God, he can pull it off. Do we dare believe in ‘happily ever after’? Do we come and enter into his love story?
