The year was 1937 and for 57 minutes audiences had already been enraptured by the worlds first full-lenght animated feature film. It was a feat that critics had said was crazy for Walt Disney to attempt. Then, before the next minute had passed, audiences heard a song that would be part of hope’s magical songbook for the next 73 years - with no sign of stopping. It’s been sung countless times by everyone from Diana Ross to the Cheetah Girls and even recorded by jazz greats such as Dave Brubeck and Herbie Hancock. Herbie gives a haunting rendition…nearly as cautiously hopeful as the heart of Snow White as she intones faith that someday her prince will indeed, come.
The story of Prince Charming, as we have already eluded to, involves a fair share of waiting. In the last chapter we considered the amount of preparation that goes into being Prince Charming. The delay might seem frustrating, but if he isn’t ready for when the time comes, he will be of little use. But there is a second aspect of the delay that’s important to note. Princesses worth rescuing have already built a story worth telling.
Snow White demonstrated her resolve, and ultimately her true worth, by bringing her grace to the situation in which she found herself. A lesser woman would have thrown a fit at her misfortune. Snow decides to clean the dwarf’s home…resting only when the work was completed. She lived with them with such an endearing grace that they weren’t even ready to let her go when taken by a poison apple. If hers was a life simply living in the shadow of a prince we would never have seen the heart of the princess.
True, she is now a princess with scars, but hers is a heart worthy of the chase. Charming has trained and prepared. He can’t always stop trouble from coming…but he doesn’t need to because her heart is strong. Yes, someday her prince will come, but not because she is helpless, but because she has the heart of a queen.
After all, this is her story.
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