Fiction

Today I feel as if I am living a real life version of Cinderella. I want to go to the ball (Wedding) have a fairy godmother who could spirit me there either. Like Cinderella I’m finding the tears are running freely as well. Oh well Cinderella is a fictional story after all, real stories have a very different ending anyway.

Some will end in tragedy, some will have good endings while others will have unexpected outcomes. The truth is that we all write our own story. I am reminded of a trend a few years back for movies, when you played the dvd you are able to decide which ending you wanted to see. We all have characters, events and story lines that our story will be woven around, how we respond to those characters and events will affect the ending of our story. We can push our way through all the challenges that life will dish up to us or we can give up and sit down and cry. What we cannot expect is to have a fairy godmother to come along and fix every problem that we face. Even when we make mistakes we can pick ourselves up and dust ourselves off and continue to move forward. Again we cannot expect that the consequences to magically disappear and not affect the future chapters of our story.

“And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.” 1 Corinthians 9:25-27. It doesn't matter how we write our story it will never be a work of fiction.