Fairy Tales and stories have been handed down from ancient times. So why in this modern age do we deprive kinder and ourselves of tales that can work magic into our lives. In the last thirty years, we have lost singing in schools as a daily event in assemblies. We have also lost children to being consumers of television programming that hooks them directly to their parent's debit card.
Children as young as two experience a daily barrage of messages that disconnect them even further from their true selves. Being a blob of flesh that exists to just be told what to think, what to like, and how someone else expects you to behave to please them, is not only dangerous for a child's emotional development and safety.
It grows a cold heart and a monotone temperament. Children need manners and to know how to socialize, so you can go out with them, and it enables them to get on. But what happens when children take on personalities that are not based on getting to know themselves, and good behavior, but to fit into an ever more toxic world..
Does not passing on fables and stories that reach deeply into the inner world of the psyche block the wisdom feeding the heart? If communication levels are at an all-time low in children, then what about firing imaginations once more?
Fairy Tales, just
like tails, swish about in the air.
If you look at children’s faces whilst you read to them, you may see a smile, a tear, fear, relief, or tranquility, and sometimes a giggle. As adults, magical stories can reignite a part of the psyche that we should perhaps recognize or have forgotten.
The Mother of God: Godmother
Playing at being Cinderella is wonderful if we see both sides of the story. How can you be sure you have met your Prince, not Blue Beard? Cinderella has stepsisters who despise her, but remember, out of the cinders, there will be a rebuilding of life. The life, death, and new life cycle has to start somewhere. In the fable, Cinder's foot matches the shoe she left behind when a magical person appeared enabling Our Lady Of The Ashes to go to the ball. One of those magical people was a fairy Godmother. Could we say that Cinder's cry for help was so strong that a faerie was sent to oversee the rebuilding of a life? Although the universal Godmother was not called by her name, Mary, she appears when needed to spiritually guide Cinders from the ashes towards a new beginning. This theme is replicated in many fairy tales.
But isn’t life right now just
amazing like that?
Well, you know. Have you ever prayed for help with a situation
and then the next day someone turned up out of the blue to help?
Or maybe you just didn’t know what to do, so
you went for a walk and prayed, asked a question, and whilst out in the supernatural world, the
answer came back. You followed through and it all worked out in the end. Could
that not be a bit like a fairy tale ending, we ask ourselves. Yes.
Sonya Vukomanovic/Lawrence 18/01/2023 ©
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