Save the Princess
My daughter is not into the whole "princess" thing as many little girls are these days. Her room does not look like a Disney annex. I try and keep her from it as best I can. We stress, "God does not look at the outside, but at the heart", and "do not adorn yourselves with gold and....". She does love a good twirly skirt, in fact a prerequisite of purchase is, "Does it twirl?" But Mae loves the princess movies and books. It is probably a little confusing because we have Brothers Grim for Rapunzel and the Disney book for Tangled. They are kinda different. And she loves Belle, so since I fell for the "going back in the vault" line in a commercial, we ran to Target and now own Beauty and the Beast. We watched it this morning.
At the end, when Belle and the transformed from beast to handsome prince finally kiss, she said, "Yea!". It wasn't her "YES" as when we say we are going to FancyNancy'sItalianIce (she says it all together); it wasn't a giggly, squealy, "Yea!!!" It was almost subconscious, soft, with a small smile. She's four. Romantic love is not really on her radar yet. She doesn't really understand what that kiss meant. But she said, "Yea!". It boils down to a girl-thing. That is how we are wired. We want love to win. We want the princess to be saved.
I have been reading Wild at Heart by John Elderedge, a must read for mamas of boys, and he says that women want to know that they are lovely. Our Sunday School teacher said one Sunday, talking about marriage and infidelity, that women just want you to hug them and listen to their stories. They are both right. Adam and Eve have been studied a lot recently, and these studies are casting new light on their relationship and the ultimate curse. (New light for me, that is.) When Eve was tempted, Adam was right there next to her and did nothing to "defend her honor". We have been searching and waiting for our Adam to defend us ever since.
Guess what? We do have an Adam that defends our honor every hour of every day. It's not a husband, even though mine is pretty great. It's Jesus. He is the one and only who can truly save the princess. We can stop searching and putting our hopes in the earthly princes and let our princes be the men that God created them to be. A man after His own heart.
At the end, when Belle and the transformed from beast to handsome prince finally kiss, she said, "Yea!". It wasn't her "YES" as when we say we are going to FancyNancy'sItalianIce (she says it all together); it wasn't a giggly, squealy, "Yea!!!" It was almost subconscious, soft, with a small smile. She's four. Romantic love is not really on her radar yet. She doesn't really understand what that kiss meant. But she said, "Yea!". It boils down to a girl-thing. That is how we are wired. We want love to win. We want the princess to be saved.
I have been reading Wild at Heart by John Elderedge, a must read for mamas of boys, and he says that women want to know that they are lovely. Our Sunday School teacher said one Sunday, talking about marriage and infidelity, that women just want you to hug them and listen to their stories. They are both right. Adam and Eve have been studied a lot recently, and these studies are casting new light on their relationship and the ultimate curse. (New light for me, that is.) When Eve was tempted, Adam was right there next to her and did nothing to "defend her honor". We have been searching and waiting for our Adam to defend us ever since.
Guess what? We do have an Adam that defends our honor every hour of every day. It's not a husband, even though mine is pretty great. It's Jesus. He is the one and only who can truly save the princess. We can stop searching and putting our hopes in the earthly princes and let our princes be the men that God created them to be. A man after His own heart.
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