Happily Ever After

Till Death do us Part

 

 

Somewhere in time, this week, I have been decorating my desk at work.  I work in a large office and all of the desks are sectioned into cubicles.  This is basically a desk surrounded by a five foot tall wall.  There is no roof or door, but its semi enclosed.  The problem is all the walls are made out of a gray fabric. The desk is gray. The overhead metal bin that I store supplies in is gray.  It’s too boring and too bland, I had to do something.

I have been adding things to it for a few weeks.  I started with a pink aluminum wrapping paper and I wrapped the wall behind my computer.  It was too shiny, so I covered it with tissue paper and I think it looks pretty.  I had some silk flowers and they were also pink, so I put those on my desk.  I found a bright pink picture frame that holds about eight pictures. I filled this up and it sits on a corner of my desk. 

This week I bought a piece of wall art.  This decorates the metal bin with my supplies.  In pink letters it says, “Once upon a time, there was a Princess.”

I like all the pink. I think it looks cheerful, but this saying made me think about fairy tales and love stories.

In a good fairy tale, many times it’s love at first sight.  He kisses her and they get married and live happily ever after. 

I think we get too caught up in happily ever after.  I do believe you can stay happily married for your entire adult life, but life is not always fairy tale perfect.  Many times when trouble comes, people give up.  If we work through trouble, we end up better off on the other side. 

Matthew 19:4-6 And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning made them male and female, and said, For this reason, a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife and the two become one flesh? So then, they are no longer two but one flesh.  Therefore what God had joined together, let no man separate.”

God doesn’t say we’re married as long as times are good. He says what God has joined together, let no man separate. 

As an encouragement to anyone who wonders about marriage.  Don’t expect a fairy tale, but do expect God’s blessings when you put him first.

 

(A More Real) Love Story from renfroe3 on GodTube.