Disney Movies remind us to find HOPE

"Maybe some moments weren't so perfect
Maybe some memories not so sweet
But we have to know some bad times
For our lives are incomplete

Then when the shadows overtake us
Just when we feel all hope is gone
We'll hear our song, and know once more
Our love lives on

How does a moment last forever
How does our happiness endure
Through the darkest of our troubles
Love is beauty, love is pure

Minutes turn to hours
Days to years, then gone
But when all else has been forgotten
Still our song lives on"

It was at the end of Disney's latest version of, "Beauty and the Beast," that tears actually started coming down my eyes.
Cheesy?
Maybe.
But Belle fought for her father. She wanted him to live his life so he took his place in the castle.
In the mean time, she fell in love. In doing so, she saved the lives of all the people in the caste and her fathers, too! She saved her own life, as well.

And it was no easy fight.
There were certainly hard days, for sure. But she made it through. And her father sure had his hard times, but he didn't give up, either, no matter what he had to go through and no matter how many people didn't believe him about there being a "Beast" in the "Castle" in the "snowy land." They wanted to lock him up and throw away the key just when Belle showed up, and then they went to lock them BOTH up to go and kill the "terrible" Beast.

In the end, it's all happy.
Can't life always be that way.
A great... BIG... "Happy" Ending?

Disney movies have a way of doing that.
But they can give you hope.
Hope to keep fighting when no one wants to believe you about your struggles.
Hope to keep fighting when people take advantage of your trust in them.
Hope to keep fighting when it seems like all hope has been lost.
Hope to keep fighting when others do things that in turn seem to destroy you, but you have every ability to put one foot in front of the other and say, "No, today I am strong and capable and I will NOT let this destroy me."

Let your life have a happy ending.
You are capable of making YOUR ending a happy one. Why not start now?