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The following is something my wife wrote on her personal blog last night: Quote:Quote:“And while they did indeed live happily ever after,
the point, gentlemen, is that they lived.” This quote from the Cinderella-esque movie, Ever After, is one of the best movie quotes of all time, in my opinion. It is so profound and applicable.
Today I watched this movie with one of my daughters who was sick. I’ve been thinking about this quote all afternoon; thinking about happiness and living and what it really means in daily life, down in the trenches.
Life can be messy. Life can hurt. Life can be hard. Life can also be full of satisfaction and healing and enjoyment.
Regardless of our situations in life, we can make the choice to live… to be happy… to see stars instead of mud. This doesn’t mean that life will be easy or that we should be blissfully rejoicing when facing inevitable pain or suffering or sorrow. But we can choose to face both the ups and downs, the joys and sorrows, with grace and peace and perseverance.
We can choose to LIVE.
Ray, That is one of my favorite quotes. Beautiful thoughts, thanks
Old-Timer wrote:Life can be messy. Life can hurt. Life can be hard. Life can also be full of satisfaction and healing and enjoyment.
I like this whole post, including this part quoted above.
I like the way Wendy Ulrich stated in her essay/speech
Quote:We recognize that we can be hurt by being betrayed or we can be hurt by not trusting, but we don’t get the no-hurt choice because there isn’t one, at least not until we simply choose not to read betrayal into every ecclesiastical failure, or abandonment into every unanswered prayer.
“Believest thou…?”: Faith, Cognitive Dissonance, and the Psychology of Religious Experience by Wendy Ulrich, Ph.D.Withdrawal is a way to try to protect oneself from being hurt, but I have found that after a while, my withdrawal leaves me feeling less satisfied because I’ve withdrawn from the positive things in life too.
Maybe I needed withdrawal for a little while to get control of my thoughts again…but then I found I wanted to get the most out of life again, which means exposing myself to the hard, messy, hurtful parts that go along with the joyful parts of life.
My story goes…”and we lived happily and unhappily ever after.”
Quote:Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it. – Ferris Bueller
From one of the greatest movies ever made – well said.
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