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BEAUTIFUL ENDINGS

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“Everyone loves a happy ending”. I’ve heard that quite a number of times (possibly in my head) or in a movie of some sort. But it is a deep seated desire in rational human beings to have beautiful and happy endings. I literally avoid movies and stories that depict tragedy and so – called reality because one tends to lose faith in small concepts such as the one I am writing about – “Beautiful Endings”. 

Ever watch a movie where so many horrible things happen to the main character? At first, the suffering and many tough situations and circumstances probably caught your attention. Maybe because some of these situations and circumstances are similar to yours or you just wonder how one could suffer so much in a lifetime, or you were just sticking around to see how much more the guy could take. Then in the middle of the movie, the guy loses someone or some people dear to him, and you are moved; you sympathize and there and then, new hope rises in you on his / her behalf, and you pray and wish he / she comes through. At this point in the movie, there’s no going back; you have to see the end of this movie. And if you’re lucky enough, if there’s no power outage or cuts, you will! 

Realizing the movie is coming to an end, your mind starts racing, your subconscious looks for the silver lining, that rising hope races to the other end of the movie to welcome the main character; to say “Welcome bro, you came through in spite of the odds”. Now I’m going to pause. 

One of two things happens at this point. It’s either the main character gets his happy and beautiful ending; your faith in him and your hope for him is rewarded or a more tragic thing happens to round his story up; and your hope is dashed. Being a witness myself and writing from experience, I know that at the end of the movie, different emotions come flooding through your body. In the first ending, you are happy, and more often than not, you turn off the TV set with a smile on your face and a glow in your heart because the main character had a beautiful and happy ending (probably better than the one you drew up in your imagination). In the second ending, you gloomily turned off the TV set, your hopes dashed, regretting why you watched the movie in the first place, and in worst cases, losing any faith and hope whatsoever in humanity. It’s like every time you hear or watch a sad ending, something dies inside of you. 

Now, some people might just say “you can’t always win in life”, and others might say “Happy endings are a thing for the movies”. At some point or the other in life, these people saw something or experienced another, which made them rush to this conclusion; or they are afraid of getting their hopes up only to have it dashed in the end. But regardless of which category they fall, these people still appreciate and desire happy and beautiful endings.

 I’m not gonna say life is a movie because it’s not. But I would liken it to one. Every day we find ourselves in one situation or the other; we find ourselves ‘in a fix’ as they say; we face all kinds of hardship, and we bear burdens and sufferings of sorts. I admire and applaud our courage and determination to hope and lookout for beautiful and happy endings in all of these situations. I cannot begin to enumerate the problems, situations and circumstances, burdens laid upon you by life. You can list them off the top of your head even if you just woke up from sleep because you think about them, worry over them and somewhere in your heart, you wish there was a beautiful and happy ending. The good news is that there is! There is such a thing as a beautiful and happy ending for you! I’m not talking about the happy endings in the movies because they are nothing compared to the happy and beautiful ending I’m talking about. Every happy ending to temporal situations is temporal. Sooner or later, life presents another challenge… and then another. But this happy and beautiful ending is never ending once it begins. I’m talking about the ending where He comes to take us to the home he has prepared for us in heaven, where we are locked in His warm embrace, where we’re all seated at Jesus’ feet. That’s the happy ending I’m talking about! No happy and beautiful ending could be compared to that. So don’t lose hope even in the desire to have happy and beautiful endings in temporal situations. He has provided all you could ever need to come through and be a victor! Better still; don’t lose hope in the eternal happy and beautiful ending Christ has promised, because He’s got everything covered! He has provided all you need, and guess what… He’s rooting for you to make it! 

Hope you have lots of happy and beautiful endings in life, and one great happy and beautiful ending in eternity.

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