Fairy Tales


As a little girl, I loved reading fairy tales.  Why not, they always have happy endings!  I'm a happy ending addict.  Even up to now.

In any movie I watch and novel I read, every situation I'm in, any image I paint and story I write, I want the endings to be happy.  They give me hope.  They give me wings to fly and see the happy side of things.

As I grew out of my little girl fairy stories, I learned that in life not all things have happy endings.  But as I live my life each day, I just try my best to find or create the happy in the things I can control and then leave the rest to God.

It's not always easy but if I learn to just let go, think happy and live one day at a time, then I believe there will be gazillions of happy moments to enjoy and happy endings to keep in my heart.

Happy endings.  What's not to love about them?  So I still read those old fairy tales sometimes (and savour the "and they lived happily ever after" moment haha ü).  And watch sunsets.  Marvel at the stars. And pray.  And breathe...


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Serenity Prayer
(Reinhold Niebuhr)

God, grant me the serenity 
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time;
enjoying one moment at a time;
accepting hardship as a pathway to peace;
taking, as Jesus did, this sinful world as it is,
not as I would have it;
trusting that You will make all things right
if I surrender to Your Will;
that I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with You forever in the next.
Amen.