God speaks to everyone in unique ways, today he spoke to me through Disney.
I'm pretty sure we have all seen the Disney classic Beauty and The Beast. In the beginning of this movie we see Maurice, Belle's dad, on the way to the fair and he gets stuck at a fork in the road. There is a road that is clear and less threatening, then there is a road that is dark and foggy. Maurice wants to go down the dark and foggy road while his horse wants to go down the clear and lit road. Maurice ends up going down the dark and foggy road; he runs into wolves that attack him and then he reaches the Beast's castle, there the Beast holds Maurice captive for what Maurice thinks to be for life.
Now Belle goes searching for her father and when she finds him The Beast exchanges Maurice's life for Belle's. Now if we look at this movie from Maurice's point of view we see that at the beginning he has an instinct to go down the dark and foggy road that leads to attacks by viscous wolves and eventual imprisonment of his daughter and through out the movie Maurice is trying to find a way to rescue Belle. At the End we see a turn around, the Beast is transformed back to human and the whole castle goes under an extreme transformation leading to a joyous ending for belle and all who live in the castle. When you think about it, this all happened because Maurice went down that dark and foggy road.
I believe we can all learn something from Beauty and The Beast. Take Maurice at the fork in the road, when we come to forks in our lives we need to be willing to go down that dark and foggy road when God tells us even though opposing forces in life are telling us to take the easy, clear, well lit road. Even if there is tremendous amounts of suffering, when we listen to God and go down that dark and foggy road we experience and unimaginable amount of riches and rewards that cannot compare. There is no telling what God has waiting for us at the end of that dark and foggy road.
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