slowly

It started slow, like sand dripping one grain at a time through an ancient hourglass. Oh, we started out normal enough, but change came. Imperceptible, yet one day, one week, one year, bit by tiny bit. Now, like a rock mountain, who we are is set in stone, and unchanging.

The original Cinderella of long ago, not the Disney world new one, had a moral in her story. In the original story, Cinderella personified what a good kind person; a well brought up lady would look like. She embodied beauty on the outside and on the inside. A forgiving person who, through her goodness, brought evil to repentance and changed it to good.

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. The things which ye both learned and received and heard and saw in me, these things do: and the God of peace shall be with you. 
(Philippians 4:8-9 ASV)

Life isn't built in a day. It is built day by day, one precept on another. Many people of the world live their lives listening to lies from Satan (who is the father of lies, as Jesus says). They eat the empty vanity cakes of the idols of this world, and never turn to the beauty of truth and salvation. They don't have anything worthwhile to look to that will help them turn to the good, true, honorable things of life eternal.

Just as the new Disney world version of Cinderella has put a different emphasis on the story, most lives miss the mark as well. We go along believing, 'if I only had more money,' or 'if I looked like that person', drove that car,' or what ever our current idol is, if I had that, things would be different. We miss the real beauty, because we're looking at the facade. 

Thus saith Jehovah, Stand ye in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way; and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls: but they said, We will not walk therein. And I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet; but they said, We will not hearken. 

(Jeremiah 6:16-17 ASV)

Hallelujah! What a Savior!