{"id":317,"date":"2012-04-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/blog\/2012\/04\/25\/write-vision-wednesday-6\/"},"modified":"2015-11-25T12:24:06","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T19:24:06","slug":"write-vision-wednesday-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/write-vision-wednesday-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Write the Vision ~ Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<i><br \/><\/i><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\nThe<br \/>\nWizard of Oz always was a favorite movie of mine, but it always bothered me at<br \/>\nthe end when Glenda told Dorothy she had what she needed to leave Oz all<br \/>\nalong&#8230;the ruby slippers.<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\nWhy did<br \/>\nGlenda do that to Dorothy? Just think of all Dorothy could have avoided&#8230;the<br \/>\nscary monkeys, the long journey, etc.<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\nWhat if Glenda had simply told<br \/>\nDorothy those shoes are your one-way ticket out of here?&nbsp;Would<br \/>\nDorothy have stayed? Would she have stopped to help a brainless scarecrow, a<br \/>\nheartless tin man and the cowardly lion? Probably not. Would she have made a<br \/>\nchoice that put her on a road to hardship, persecution, and danger even though<br \/>\nshe knew that she would save others and grow personally along the way?&nbsp;And if Dorothy<br \/>\nhad returned straight to Kansas, what was the point of the journey?<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\nJust like a mother has to step back as her child is taking his first steps, Glenda stepped back. She knew Dorothy had to go<br \/>\nthrough those hard places to become the Dorothy she should be. By taking that hard road she made some wonderful friends, and those difficult experiences made her grow personally.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\nHad she taken that easy way out, she<br \/>\nwould have been forever looking for that place \u201cover the rainbow\u201d and avoiding<br \/>\nher fears.&nbsp; But by going there, by<br \/>\npreserving, she learned that \u201csomewhere over the rainbow\u201d wasn\u2019t a perfect place to escape from your problems. It was a place of growth.<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\nThere<br \/>\nare other books like The Wizard of Oz with epic journeys, and in each one the<br \/>\nprotagonist returns a changed individual. In these books the \u201chero\u2019s journey\u201d is quite literal and we see it is through trials and tests that the characters bloom and grow.<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\nAll<br \/>\nthese books remind me of Job 23:10<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<i>But He knoweth the way that I<br \/>\ntake: when He hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.<\/i><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\nIn life it is the hard times that help us to become stronger. Just as in life, adversity can make our characters stronger too. While it isn\u2019t<br \/>\neasy to make beloved characters suffer, we can take a cue from these journeys as well as from the lessons in the book of &nbsp;Job&#8211; it isn&#8217;t the good times forge character, it&#8217;s the trials.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wizard of Oz always was a favorite movie of mine, but it always bothered me at the end when Glenda told Dorothy she had what she needed to leave Oz all along&#8230;the ruby slippers. Why did Glenda do that to Dorothy? 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