HOLY TALES by Susan Marene

​My heart is overflowing with a good theme; recite my composition concerning the King; My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Psalm 45:1 

It has been said that to copy someone is the highest form of a compliment. By this, I believe, such attentiveness can show how much we esteem and venerate those we mimic. But sometimes we just miss the mark, get off track, and don’t copy well enough.
 We are so much like God, our Creator, in our desire to spin out fabulous art and story. We were created in His image; but sometimes we copy what He expresses with a different emphasis in mind. 

Fairy Tales, for instance, the few I’ve read, mimic the royalty and abundant, limitless riches many of us long for. These stories provide the impression that the damsel in distress is beautiful, thus more worthy to be loved than the rest of those living in fairy tale land. The prince views the incredible beauty of Thumbelina or Sleeping Beauty or Cinderwench, {known as Cinderella.} and the prince is head-over-heels in LOVE with ‘her’ before their first conversation begins. Thumbelina even garners a marriage proposal from the King at their first meeting.

Thankfully, those tales gave the heroines pleasant personalities to match their uncommon beauty. I can’t get past thinking about the dirt caked under Cinderwench’s nails, calluses on her hands….But what about the rest of us? Where is my fairy godmother? Where is yours? Those lacking in a perfect completion, body shape, or favor…none of which we can be given any credit for or create—we can only alter a tad here or there and enhance by proper grooming. Fairy Tales spark that awe in us and lead us right off track into carnal land. A land where those riches or favors are not obtainable, except for a few. These stories are not feasible or realistic. But the good news is that we have the call, inspiration, and the reality to write Holy Tales. Those can inspire and make known the actual limitless love, forgiveness, grace, protection—I believe that you know I’m referring to all the truths and qualities that relate others to our God.

Instead of locking insecurity and impossibilities inside our children’s minds with their early introduction to story, why don’t we inspire the realization of the achievable excellence of growing in His grace, truth, and relationship? The reward for being the person He destined us to be is real. He will watch over His word to perform it concerning us.  In God’s eyes, everyone is essential. We are loved and venerated by the King of Kings and Lord of Lords! We are made in His image! Don’t settle for stories focused on carnal pleasures and unfulfilled dreams. We need only to fall in love with Him and follow His lead. The world looks for something tangible, materialistic, with strut-quality and don’t forget instant gratification. Selfishness, greed, feeling entitled without working on a relationship with God or surrendering to Him seems to rule the day. Only when He rules our hearts will we know pure and lasting joy.

Are you willing to position your pen in the direction of Holy Tales to inspire young minds to follow Him into their true, obtainable HAPPY EVER AFTER? Take up your pen and dance on that page!

This is an edited re-post of a blog I wrote years ago!