I have been watching a new tv show during prime time this season, called, "Once upon a time." This is outside of my normal viewing genre, but I was intrigued by the storyline, and now I am hooked. If you haven't seen it, it is basically a twist on all the fairy tale stories that we all grew up with. The characters have been taken from their world to ours, their century to ours, and the stories are a bit different than I remember them....
Last week's episode was thought provoking. In this episode, Rumpelstiltskin has a son. The son hates seeing the changes that have taken place in his father's life, due to the magic that he inherited, which began to eat away at him, changing his heart toward evil. The son searches for a cure, but instead is offered an opportunity to take himself and his father out of their world into a world without magic, where the two would be able to live a "normal" life.
What a twist! Don't we all too often pray to God for a miracle, a bit of magic if you will, to fix our problems? Wouldn't we rather have a pill, potion, or magic spell that would take away our pain, rather than to have to face life's battles the hard way?
But I praise God that this is not how life is for us. We do have to struggle, but it is in the struggles that we learn and grow. I praise God that he is consistent and unchanging. Long ago, he put the laws of nature in place, so that we don't have to worry that some enemy could come after us and turn us instantly into toads! We can count on gravity, cause and effect, and all the other laws of physics as we navigate this world.
I wouldn't have it any other way.
Last week's episode was thought provoking. In this episode, Rumpelstiltskin has a son. The son hates seeing the changes that have taken place in his father's life, due to the magic that he inherited, which began to eat away at him, changing his heart toward evil. The son searches for a cure, but instead is offered an opportunity to take himself and his father out of their world into a world without magic, where the two would be able to live a "normal" life.
What a twist! Don't we all too often pray to God for a miracle, a bit of magic if you will, to fix our problems? Wouldn't we rather have a pill, potion, or magic spell that would take away our pain, rather than to have to face life's battles the hard way?
But I praise God that this is not how life is for us. We do have to struggle, but it is in the struggles that we learn and grow. I praise God that he is consistent and unchanging. Long ago, he put the laws of nature in place, so that we don't have to worry that some enemy could come after us and turn us instantly into toads! We can count on gravity, cause and effect, and all the other laws of physics as we navigate this world.
I wouldn't have it any other way.
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