Hey there!
Last night, I went to go watch Dear John, which was pretty good. Nothing can EVER beat Pride and Prejudice, but it was still pretty good. Make sure you bring tissues though since you will cry. There was maybe tree guys in the auditorium. The rest were either college, high school, and maybe even a few middle school girls. No surprise there though! haha. I went with some good friends, and it was a lot of fun! The 7:10 showing was sold out by the time we got there, and even when we got the 9:45 showing, we still had to wait in a line fifty minutes before the movie started. Popular movie? I think so.
(Caution: Spoilers)
The movie led me to think about love and how people see it differently. The movie of course, followed the general, passionate love two young people go through. Holding hands, hugging, making out, and even the granddaddy of them all. Don't get me wrong, these things aren't bad, EXCEPT if they're under the wrong context. They loved each other so much, and yet because he was away in Iraq, and they couldn't be with each other, she married someone else! And then when he came back, she admitted that if she had heard his voice, she would have changed her mind!!!! This kind of thing gets on my nerves. She loved him so much, and yet she couldn't wait for him to come back home and marry him! Undoubtedly, it's hard to wait. I understand that concept very, very well. But if you love someone that much, and could even keep in contact with him through letters, marrying someone else won't help your case much. She wanted to help the other man she married, and I think she even loved him, but why marry someone when you have someone else in the world who is WAITING for you too.
A line that caught me in the movie was one that the main character Savannah said, "What was I to do? Without you, I am nothing!" Or something like that. This goes back to the problem of today's look at love. The love of your life, instead of enhancing your relationship with God, is your god! And if you can't touch someone and be sexually intimate, then what's the use of having a relationship? I know people who have this problem, and it ends up hurting them so much, it's hard to see love any other way. One of my friends has commented that she's tired of the dating game, and I can't blame her. Who wants to play with their heart?
I've met some people who understand why I don't date, but some just have no clue. Why would she do that? I'm sure they ask themselves. What crazy person doesn't date! Come on now, really? I've been asked, do you even want to marry or even date? I answer, sure, but not now. I'm waiting on God's timing. Many of them think that if there's a man in front of you, God must have put him there, and He's just waiting for you to grab him up. This is not my view in the least. I think God is very, very capable of bringing the right man into my life at the right time, and that the effort I will have to put into it will be one of more prayer and waiting. I believe the man should make the first move and that you DON'T have to date in order to get to know someone. I really like the idea of courting and something much more precious and infinitely more powerful than just everyday dating. "Oh, that's just a pipe dream, Keri Lynn," some people might say. Yet I know people have done it before, and God can do it again. I just have to trust Him.
So now that I've been through my soap box, I hope some of you enjoyed, and I hope God will continue to keep my strong and secure in my belief that HE is all I need. I don't need to be married in order to be fulfilled. God is enough. He is enough.
Peace to you all,
Keri Lynn
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