Beauty and the Beast is one of my all-time favorites happily ever after stories of all times. I find myself in her story more than once. No matter where we are in life we must never give up on love. Beauty dreams of falling in love but knows she has not met the one as she goes about her regular life each day. Regardless of her mundane everyday routine she never loses her song and dream. Have you lost your song and dream of love?

Bell lived a life of sacrifice helping to take care of her dad and flaming the flame of his dream as an inventor. She supports him and ends up deciding to sacrifice herself and her dreams to guard his life. He ended up trapped in the beasts’ grip and in exchange for her life, he was released. Have you ever loved and supported someone else, or even your children and watched your dream die so their dream could live? God wants you to know your sacrifices were not in vain. The path you are on is going to lead you to the one even if adversity led you to them.

She went into a castle that without her knowing it was cursed. You underestimated the strongholds in the bloodline you married into and are now facing Goliaths. Many of us are living under a spiritual curse from generations. God wants to begin to give us better. He wants to give us what our slave ancestors never had. They weren’t even allowed to marry. Their children were sold and stolen while they nursed the babies of their slave owners. This is a time he is restoring to us not just what we dreamed but what they dreamed.

God is about to break the curse, but it will require love to break the curse. We as a Black nation must begin to love beyond what we can see. Beyond the hate. Beyond the bitterness. Beyond the pain of what brought you into that prison like Bell that seems so unfair. You must realize it is bigger than you. Your ability to love is going to be the fulfillment of many generational promises of a love legacy that will be passed down for many generations to come. You won’t just leave money; you will leave a restored hope in love and marriage.

Bell ends up falling in love and seeing more in him before the last pedal falls. God wants you to know it is not too late for that marriage, trust he can restore it even if you are married to a beast. Love has the power to break the curse. She broke the curse with the power of her love. Don’t underestimate the power of your love. Everything in the castle came back into divine restoration. If you can see beyond those weaknesses, cover them, and share God’s love, God will change it. Everything and everyone connected to you will change just like it did in the castle because Bell was able to see beyond the beast and see the real King.

The power of love,

You are the one I’m thinking of,

The only man on my mind,

As we become intertwined,

I imagine you whisper in my ear,

And it’s as if I become deaf and I can’t hear.

God’s love,

has the power to silence the voices and choices in my head of,

Every negative thing, my father, mother, or ex-lover every spoke,

It’s powerful enough to knock down every wall down,

That was ever built,

And strong enough to heal what was broke,

And to rescue me from the shame and guilt,

of my past.

When you lay hands on me,

You will leave your fingerprints and will be charged with the crime,

Of changing my name and stealing my time,

while causing my life to be redefined.

I imagine you will have the skills to play me like an instrument.

To rhythmically follow your notes

And heartbeat,

To arise in every area of my life that I have known defeat,

And to empower me to stand on my feet,

Where I was once crippled and lamed,

devastated, and blamed.

When I look into your eyes, I can see my dream,

Believing we will make it no matter what things seem.

You are a light to my way,

That gives me hope each day,

A voice in the wilderness that has paved a path,

So, we can live in his favor and laugh.

We will never suffocate again because we can’t come near,

No more fear,

For I need you to resuscitate me,

For my love has the power to set you free.