Beauty & The Beast

Tonight we went to school to see the Jr/Sr High perform the musical-Beauty and the Beast! They did a magnificent job! Belle was played by a beautiful  & sweet girl that I used to babysit when she was little. She sings like an angel and looks right at home as she performed. The rest of the cast did such a wonderful job. Each one seemed to own their part and play it well. Ashton played Cogsworth and had the accent and humor down so that we laughed along with some of his lines. Ben sang his part and I loved his accent as Lumiere! Ben was Gaston and his height added well to the part and he did a great job with his acting and his singing. Heather was so cute and one of my favorite characters as Babette the feather duster-such a flirt! The other characters had great outfits and added so much to the entire musical. They pulled it altogether after practicing one day at a time and did a great job. The set was neat too because Jim built it to be able to roll yet all the walls were attached so they could rotate around-such a savings on space but allowed for 3 different scenes in one!

If you were there tonight then I'm sure you enjoyed it as much as I did. It made me think about a couple of things. One, I love fairy tales because they always have a Happy Ending! Life isn't always like that-we can't be guaranteed a happy ending while here on earth because we live in a world marred by sin. But that isn't the end of the story-if we are Christians then we do have a happy ending because we know that we will end up in Heaven with Christ-our King!

I was also reminded that we need to look beyond the surface. Love doesn't depend just on looks and money and prestige and power. Love will continue through sickness, pain, blemishes, and debt.

James 1:11

For the sun rises with its scorching heat and withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes.

 Christ looked beyond our sin and still loved us enough to send His son to take our sin so that we could have fellowship with Him. He looks beyond the appearance to the heart. 

I Samuel 16:7

For the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart. 

Beauty is in the eye of the Beholder!