What is life without drama?
What is romance without a little pain and struggle?
What kind of bullshit story has a climax with no conflict?
Every story needs a conflict. It's the rules. Even fairytales are filled with drama, heartache, desperation, and suspense along the way to happily ever after. What fun would it be if Cinderella had it easy? No fairy godmother, no glass slipper, no nothing. There has to be a conflict for there to be a resolution.
But those stories are for entertainment's sake, you might say. They can't be taken seriously.
Okay. Then take the Bible, for example.
Drama, heartache, desperation, suspense. Conflict and resolution. Brokenness and redemption. And, yes, even the promise of a happily ever after.
Can there be redemption without brokenness?
Let me rephrase that.
There can be no redemption without brokenness.
Today's resolution makes yesterday's pain so worth it.
I like redemption, so I'll take the brokenness. That's fine by me.
I love my love story.
It's mine, and I'm sticking to it.
