Now you will live happily ever after......

My daughter Ally received a princess crown for her birthday recently. We were sitting in the office not too long ago and she placed that crown on my head and declared "Now you will live happily ever after!" As she continued on, I thought to myself Oh how I wish it were that easy.

We are obviously in the midst of the "princess" phase right now. Dresses, highheels, crowns, boppy-boos (this is Ally's word for magic wands), the whole nine yards. She loves all things princess, especially Disney princess. I often said we were never going to get into all that, but here we are finding ourselves enthralled in everything princess.

I was thinking the other day How did we let her become engrossed in this stuff? And then something came to me. What's really so bad about it after all? Generally speaking they are really good girls, who do really good things, they encounter some hardships, but in the end they live happily ever after. Is that so bad? Now, grant you, sometimes there are some princesses out there that bring disgrace to the kingdom, but all in all it really isn't that bad. I mean you get to wear gorgeous dresses everyday, you have the most beautiful voice anyone has ever heard, you make friends with talking animals and you always find your prince charming. Sounds like a lot fun! Sign me up :-)

The word princess itself has sort of a DIVA connotation to it. You think of someone always dressed in the fanciest clothes, along with perfect hair, perfect makeup, sitting around on her throne all day eating bon-bons and telling people what to do. But when I looked up the word Princess in the dictionary this is what I found:

a female member of a royal family other than the queen (especially the daughter of a sovereign)

This definition does not describe a princess as being perfect, lazy or bossy. It simply descibes her as being a daughter of the king. So in actuality why wouldn't I want that for my daughters ? I long for my girls to be known as "the good girls". I long for my girls to do good things for other people. I long for my girls to find their prince charming. But most of all I long for my girls to be daughters of "The King."

As I mentioned last week in my own personal blog, it is my greatest desire as a mommy to see my girls living their lives in honor of The King of Kings, Jesus Christ. I have high hopes that one day I will see my daughters lives overflowing with the love of The Heavenly Father, The Sovereign God. It brings tears to my eyes just thinking about it. So I have learned to love the life of a princess and now I am raising two of my own.

Life isn't always easy being a princess, but when you serve the Most High King, you will always live happily ever after.......

".......He seats them with princes and has them inherit a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the LORD's; upon them he has set the world." 1 Samuel 2:8

"But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light." 1 Peter 2:9

Much Love,

Kazia

P.S. Nine years ago this Wednesday, I married my prince charming. Sure, he watches too much football, burps really loud sometimes and leaves his dirty socks on the floor, but He is MY PRINCE. He brings love and life into our home. He loves me and loves his girls, but most of all he loves his God. He has set a good example to my girls of what a prince charming should be. I love you with all my heart Brooks Ferguson. Thank you for working so hard to make our lives so good. Thank you for loving me and thank you for loving our girls! I couldn't ask for anything more!