THREE WISHES
You Have Three Wishes
Did you ever notice that in stories about genies that grant wishes, there are three? Did you ever wonder why three?
The first wish is made because you think that this is what you want most and will make you the most happy. Usually with first wishes, we get to see what it pays to be careful what you wish for because usually it doesn’t turn out quite like you planned. You see that things are not quite what you thought they would be.
The second wish usually makes an improvement on the first. You learn a little bit more, make corrections with the first wish and ultimately you do seem to get a better result. But still you could sing along with the Eagles the words to one of their songs that says, “What do you do when your dreams come true and they don’t turn out quite like you planned.”
By the third wish the dreamer hopes that he or she has learned something from the first two wishes and can make the ultimate best choice this time. There is this one last shot to correct the misses that occurred the first two times. Alan Watts wrote about three wishes saying that the last wish was to bring the person back to where they began. Though three wishes may be a good basis for stories that show the person back to where they began, I would like to think that the third wish would bring a person to another, better beginning that was enhanced by what they learned from the first two wishes.
Maybe that is what dreams and wishes are created for. We learn and improve on each level.
The three wishes stories usually have the moral that things are not quite the way we thought they were. What we thought was important or would make us happy or was the ultimate wish or dream, was not it. While these things can be blessings, if you don’t know what is really important these will not bring the joy that they could bring.
In the end, it is Love that is what gives us life and sustains it. To love and be loved is the stuff of which keeps this universe going. We think things or other people will make us happy but it is the love we seek and ultimately the love we find that is behind all desires that makes our dreams and wishes have meaning and life. It is what makes people and things have value. They have no value in themselves. Once we know the Source of Love and happiness then people, places, and things will be seen as they really are – gifts of the Spirit. They are not what bring us happiness, peace or joy but the Source of it all, Love, God, Jesus, Great Spirit, Allah, or whatever name you give Love, is what brings these to us. We think that things bring love but it is love that brings things.
If you have but one wish, wish for this – to know the Source of all that you desire and all the rest will be added unto you.
Did you ever notice that in stories about genies that grant wishes, there are three? Did you ever wonder why three?
The first wish is made because you think that this is what you want most and will make you the most happy. Usually with first wishes, we get to see what it pays to be careful what you wish for because usually it doesn’t turn out quite like you planned. You see that things are not quite what you thought they would be.
The second wish usually makes an improvement on the first. You learn a little bit more, make corrections with the first wish and ultimately you do seem to get a better result. But still you could sing along with the Eagles the words to one of their songs that says, “What do you do when your dreams come true and they don’t turn out quite like you planned.”
By the third wish the dreamer hopes that he or she has learned something from the first two wishes and can make the ultimate best choice this time. There is this one last shot to correct the misses that occurred the first two times. Alan Watts wrote about three wishes saying that the last wish was to bring the person back to where they began. Though three wishes may be a good basis for stories that show the person back to where they began, I would like to think that the third wish would bring a person to another, better beginning that was enhanced by what they learned from the first two wishes.
Maybe that is what dreams and wishes are created for. We learn and improve on each level.
The three wishes stories usually have the moral that things are not quite the way we thought they were. What we thought was important or would make us happy or was the ultimate wish or dream, was not it. While these things can be blessings, if you don’t know what is really important these will not bring the joy that they could bring.
In the end, it is Love that is what gives us life and sustains it. To love and be loved is the stuff of which keeps this universe going. We think things or other people will make us happy but it is the love we seek and ultimately the love we find that is behind all desires that makes our dreams and wishes have meaning and life. It is what makes people and things have value. They have no value in themselves. Once we know the Source of Love and happiness then people, places, and things will be seen as they really are – gifts of the Spirit. They are not what bring us happiness, peace or joy but the Source of it all, Love, God, Jesus, Great Spirit, Allah, or whatever name you give Love, is what brings these to us. We think that things bring love but it is love that brings things.
If you have but one wish, wish for this – to know the Source of all that you desire and all the rest will be added unto you.
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