Cinderella is no extraordinary girl. Just the girl next door who has a troubled past and wishes for a chance like any other girls to see the world through the magnifying glass. Anyone who has read her story would find her a very captivating girl, beautifully sculptured for anyone’s imagination. In the outside Cinderella is a wonderful person, in the outside, she is dying.
She is the kind of woman who has locked herself into the world of hopelessness and has learnt to keep herself in the dungeon of despair. She is the kind of woman outside there who has no idea what lies beneath her, the one who lets the others use her so long as they know she does not know what she is capable of. The opportunity has arisen for Cinderella to shine and seems otherwise when her step mother forbids her from venturing into the world outside. The kind of person who tells you it is impossible….because they know your possibilities are limitless and they help you lock your potential in a dungeon…they know.
It is time to break away, tame the seas and give away the shame to the wind, because it has never occurred to Cinderella that the world is bigger than what her mind is able to capture and when her fairy godmother steps in to rescue her, she realizes the potential of her inside lies within what she has in her mind. When the changes happen, Cinderella takes her first step into the world outside and she sees it as a retreat from the hollowness of her soul. With one condition, she needs to get back to reality before midnight…and abandon her old self .Cinderella has no idea what the future holds, but even as God was taking her to the world, He knew that and had equipped her for the task ahead. She has the courage to make things happen but…the many buts of life that hold us back.
Cinderella is one of the million of us who prefer the comfort of what we know rather than the change that we must embrace and her dungeon is better than what the Prince Charming has to offer her and the storm within her rages for a while before the Prince Charming calms the sea and lets her see further beyond the calmness of her heart.
Jesus Christ told the disciples to set out to the other side of the lake (Luke 8:22-25) which they did, and while they were crossing over, there was a storm and one of them said to Jesus, “Master Master, we’re going to drown!” Now Jesus was asleep, so he woke up and rebuked the wind and the raging waters…then he asked, “Where is your faith?”
Whatever reason Jesus decided to take a nap….the same reason Cinderella’s godmother did not go with her to the ball. They knew both Cinderella and the disciples had the courage to calm the storm that would be ahead of them. We can always have the slippers of our lives if we want. However, it takes the strength to hold to the slippers, because happily ever after is a stage going and coming and many things to learn.
What do you believe? What is your faith? Can you be like Moses, part the sea and cross over or keep the staff and remain with the oppressors? Like Steve Biko said, “The greatest weapon in the hands of the oppressors is the mind of the oppressed.”
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