Sitting Longing To Be A Princess?

This morning as I sat and spent time with God, some interesting thoughts were running through my mind...I was reading 1 Peter 2 and it talks about transforming into the person that God intended you to be. And I got to thinking (spurred on by a devotional that is in my Bible!) that in the heart of every woman is the longing to be a princess. I've always thought that was because that's the way God designed us to be, to long to be rescued by a hero (a man) and to take part in an adventure with that hero. Now that mindset might have come from the book Captivating. In that book they explain so clearly that every young girl desires to be a princess...to be a beauty that the beast will fall in love with...to be someones love of life...etc etc...I absolutely loved the book and it brought so much clarity to me as why I do the things I do. I highly recommend it to all females of any age really. Anyhow, even though we long for our own Cinderella story to take place let's think back....way back before there were stories like Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Beauty and the Beast and all of the princess movies! Before all of them came God and man kind. After the fall, God has been trying to transform mankind back to it's original state. Which won't be completed till we get to Heaven, but He finds each of us in the ashes as we are being held back from the life we dream of living. He longs to raise us up and transform us. He invites us to come and dance with Him. But each of us needs someone to affirm our inherent value and to encourage our transformation. Now we as women have been trained to look to men to affirm our value and to help promote the changes we want. But in all reality it's God that needs to become our Prince! Sounds cheesy I know, but think deep about it. It all makes sense. He is wooing us so that our relationship will become closer and closer so that the ultimate transformation can take place! So while every woman's life story is unique, there are longings of the heart that seem to be universal...the desire to find true love. Maybe you having stirrings inside of you as it is the 2nd day of February, (which as women we all know what is 12 days away!) stirrings of desire to find that true love - then think about this concept. He is wooing you to come to Him, where you can find that True Love that will never leave you or hurt you. Your transformation into beauty that you are desiring will take place once you find that True Love. Wow! Thank you God for opening my eyes to a concept that has been so twisted by movies and society! Anyhow, that is what God is stirring in  my heart! Hope you've enjoyed reading it and maybe even got a little something from it as I did!