Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Happily-Ever-After.

My story has already been written with a happy ending. I don't know what the details look like yet, in between now and then, but I have read enough books to know that it will most likely involve something painful and terrifying. That's what it always takes, to shove the protagonist out of complacency and into an adventure. Because, given a choice in the matter, we tend to opt for being comfortable instead of being alive.

But our Author has other plans in mind. He is not boring or safe, but infinitely creative and complex. After all, He not only crafted beautiful settings, characters, and plots to tell His story--He invented them all in the first place.

From the very beginning, He knew things were going to get messy, He knew what He would have to do to set the story straight again, he knew the disease and the darkness and the cruelty that would ravage the world with the first bite of that cursed fruit. Yes, He knew it all. He could have erased the whole story, started anew. But He didn't. He kept writing.

This means one of two things. Either God is not the good God we believe Him to be, or: all this crap, this fear and sorrow and pain we trudge through...is going to be worth it someday. All things really will work together for good. Personally, my bet is on the latter. Because I've met the Author, and He's already proven to me again and again in my own story that He knows what He's doing.

So go ahead, cheat. Flip to the end of the book and read the last page. It is your name, red letters written in the Book of Life, with ink from the blood of the Lamb. Our happily-ever-after has already been secured. Why be afraid of the adventure that will lead us there?

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