interesting

i've been reading this book called "captivating" by john and stasi eldredge. here's some stuff that i've found interesting, and suprisingly true, so far:

"Have you ever wondered why the Cinderella story keeps haunting us? Not only is it a perennial favorite of little girls' women love it too. Think of all the movies made along its themes...Ever After, a Cinderella Story...Why is this notion of a hidden princess (and a prince who comes to find her) so enduring? is there something in our hearts that is trying to speak to us? Is it just fantasy, escapism? Or is there something more?

The desire of a woman's heart and the realities of a woman's life seem an ocean apart. Oh, we long for romance and an irreplaceable role in a great story; we long for beauty. But that's not the life we have. The result is a sense of shame...Mankind is like a king or queen in exile, and we cannot be happy until we have recovered our true state. What would you expect the Queen of a kingdom and the Beauty of the realm to feel when she wakes to find herself a laundress in a foreign land? A woman's struggle with her sense of worth points to something glorious she was designed to be. The great emptiness we feel points to the great place we were created for...

Eve was given to the world as the incarnation of a beautiful, captivating God-a life-offering, life-saving lover, a relational specialist, full of tender mercy and hope. Yes, she brought a strenth to the world, but not a striving, sharp-edged strenth. She was inviting, alluring, captivating...

Most women doubt very much that they have any genuine beauty to unveil. It is, in fact, our deepest doubt. When it comes to issues surrounding beauty, we vacillate between striving and resignation...

Every woman knows now that she is not what she was meant to be. And she fears that soon it will be known-if it hasn't already been discovered-and that she will be abandoned. Left alone to die a death of the heart. That is a woman's worst fear-Abandonment. Rather than turning back to God, reversing the posture that brought about our crisis in the first place (which Eve set in motion and we have repeated ad nauseum), we continue down that path by doing what we can to secure ourselves in a dangerous and unpredictable world. And down in the depths of our hearts, our Question remains. Unanswered. Or rather, it remains anaswered in the way it was answered so badly in our youth. "Am I lovely? Do you see me? Do you want to see me? Are you captivated by what you find in me?" We live haunted by that Question, yet unaware that it still needs an answer."
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hmm.